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Subject: Re: Itanium Processor tm, Will it Power Chess Software Better Than I A-32?

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 09:40:55 06/22/01

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On June 21, 2001 at 17:47:20, Rich Van Gaasbeck wrote:

>On June 21, 2001 at 05:54:05, David Blackman wrote:
>
>[snip]
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>>and most chess programs don't use floating
>>point.
>>
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>But it does have population count and find first zero instructions which will
>make bitboard programs like Crafty happy.

I don't think it IA-64 includes find first non-zero _bit_ instruction--only
bytes.

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