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Subject: Re: HW based Crafty (Boule's thesis)

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 10:44:03 04/09/02

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On April 09, 2002 at 10:01:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 08, 2002 at 23:58:40, Keith Evans wrote:
>
>>So how many more of these tables are there...?
>
>That's a good question.  But first, a more important question...  what would
>be the _best_ way to do this in hardware?  IE lookup tables are the best way
>(so far) for software...  But for hardware things would probably be
>different.  IE it would be possible to rotate the bitboards in hardware
>rather than storing them already rotated...  This probably needs some thought
>as it is not always the best idea to take a software algorithm and stuff it into
>hardware as-is...

I guess that it would be only be interesting if you could rotate in a single
cycle?

The major problem that I have is that I don't understand what your functions are
really doing, so I can't really think about the big picture. I could browse the
Crafty source, but only after I file my taxes. (It's one of those - you owe the
govt $$$ years. Hard to get motivated to finish!)



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