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Subject: Re: Interesting pure C high-bit routine from a post by Robert Harley

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:26:29 05/11/02

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On May 10, 2002 at 04:53:45, Tim Foden wrote:

looks very slow to me. something that needs to be 1 assembly
instruction is a lot of instructions now. also it delivers
another bitmask where not a single evaluation routine can
do much with. Anyway, it's without branches, which is important
nowadays.

Best regards,
Vincent

>On May 09, 2002 at 22:56:05, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On May 09, 2002 at 22:17:24, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>On May 09, 2002 at 20:04:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>please freshen up our mind what you can do with
>>>the top_bit function?
>>>
>>>i completely forgot. something like finding all moves from here to
>>>a certain square or so?
>>>
>>>that is... ...in a bitmap
>>
>>Nice to pick out pieces from a list of bits, if you are using it as a piece
>>list.  Just a handy way to get the first piece from a list.  It has the same
>>function as FirstOne(BITBOARD a) in Crafty's code.
>
>I would have thought it was similar to LastOne() :)
>
>Of course, it only returns a bitmap.  To get a bit index (which is what
>FirstOne() and LastOne() return) you would need something like this:
>
>static int map[67] =
>{
>    -1,  0,  1, 39,  2, 15, 40, 23,  3, 12, 16, 59, 41, 19, 24, 54,
>     4,  0, 13, 10, 17, 62, 60, 28, 42, 30, 20, 51, 25, 44, 55, 47,
>     5, 32,  0, 38, 14, 22, 11, 58, 18, 53, 63,  9, 61, 27, 29, 50,
>    43, 46, 31, 37, 21, 57, 52,  8, 26, 49, 45, 36, 56,  7, 48, 35,
>     6, 34, 33,
>};
>
>/* Returns bit index of top bit of x, or -1 if x = 0. */
>static INLINE int LastOne( uint64 x )
>{
>    x |= x >> 1;
>    x |= x >> 2;
>    x |= x >> 4;
>    x |= x >> 8;
>    x |= x >> 16;
>    x |= x >> 32;
>    x ^= x >> 1;
>    return map[x % 67];
>}
>
>// and of course you can do first one too...
>static INLINE int FirstOne( uint64 x )
>{
>    x &= ~(x - 1)
>    return map[x % 67];
>}
>
>Cheers, Tim.



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