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Subject: Re: Move generation question for the big boys

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:42:15 09/17/01

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On September 17, 2001 at 03:59:11, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>This is very easy to see. The statement that bsf/bsr are fast instructions
>is irrelevant because either of the conditional jumps receives 30 times the
>speed penalty of those instructions.

The trick is that in crafty the bitboards are usually empty or
near-empty, and the number of mispredictions in minimal.

--
GCP



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