Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:36:03 05/18/01
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On May 18, 2001 at 11:37:18, Miguel A. Ballicora 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 others, a complete rewrite :-) > >Miguel Probably a rewrite into bitmaps. The issue is information density. Bitmaps are dense pieces of information requiring 64 bits. A normal program will end up with most of the bits wasted since the upper 1/2 are _never_ used and in general, the lower 1/2 is only partially used, in any 64 bit register...
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