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Subject: Re: On Beowulf - long post

Author: martin fierz

Date: 06:31:32 06/06/01

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>
>In this piece of crap code i see everywhere:
>
>    if (side == WHITE)
>        tsq = B->WhiteKnights;
>    else
>        tsq = B->BlackKnights;
>
>Note you can eliminate these branches, which speeds code up bigtime.
[snip]

so, who can enlighten a dummy like me? how exactly can i eliminate
branches like this? i admit that my checkers program has some of these
too... although i mostly do it like this

if(color==WHITE)



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