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Subject: Re: Move generation question for the big boys

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:25:45 09/16/01

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On September 15, 2001 at 22:31:04, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 15, 2001 at 20:34:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 15, 2001 at 14:30:40, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>[snip]
>>FirstOne() isn't particularly slow, using the bit-scan instructions that
>>are very fast on PII and beyond.  It certainly isn't much of a cost in the
>>profile runs I do.
>
>FORCEINLINE int FirstOne(BITBOARD a) {
>
>#if _M_IX86 <= 500 /* on plain Pentiums, use boolean.c algorithm */
>  __asm {
>        movzx   edx, word ptr a+6
>        xor     eax, eax
>        test    edx, edx
>        jnz     l1
>        mov     dx, word ptr a+4
>        mov     eax, 16
>        test    edx, edx
>        jnz     l1
>        mov     dx, word ptr a+2
>        mov     eax, 32
>        test    edx, edx
>        jnz     l1
>        mov     dx, word ptr a
>        mov     eax, 48
>  l1:   add     al, byte ptr first_ones[edx]
>  }
>#else /* BSF and BSR are *fast* instructions on PPro/PII */
>  __asm {
>        bsr     edx, dword ptr a+4
>        mov     eax, 31
>        jnz     l1
>        bsr     edx, dword ptr a
>        mov     eax, 63
>        jnz     l1
>        mov     edx, -1
>  l1:   sub     eax, edx
>  }
>#endif /* _M_IX86 > 500 */
>}
>
>Ugh ugh, how slow is 'particularly slow' slow in your dictionary?
>
>Best regards,
>Vincent

A few clock cycles is how slow this is.  Fast enough that it doesn't register
on the profile runs to any significant degree...  If profile doesn't complein,
then I don't worry about it.




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