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Subject: Re: 64 Bit Processors

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 10:34:22 05/18/01

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On May 18, 2001 at 12:45:04, Olaf Jenkner wrote:

>On May 18, 2001 at 09:38:18, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 18, 2001 at 08:51:55, Joshua Lee wrote:
>>
>>>What will the new chips do for chess?
>>
>>
>>For bitboard programs, potentially a factor of 2x faster.  For others, not
>>much just for going to 64 bits.
>
>for 32-bit machines I know two ways of coding:
>
>1)
>or eax,[m]
>jnz @a
>or edx,[m+4]
>jnz @a
>...
>@a:
>
>2)
>or eax,[m]
>or edx,[m+4]
>or eax,edx
>jnz @a
>...
>@a:
>
>Does anybody know which is better?
>It's difficult to guess because pipelining, pairing
>and so on.
>
>Olaf


The second is almost certainly better, as it has one less branch.




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