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Subject: Re: Intel compiler, SIMD, and Bitboards

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:39:41 06/04/02

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On June 04, 2002 at 15:34:38, Sean Mintz wrote:
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>I think it'd be interesting to see if any speedup can be achieved by using these
>data types. Can anyone run some tests to find out? It would seem to me that if
>we can hold 64 bit values (using __m64) then we should see a 2x speedup in some
>cases. Hope this helps some people.

The 64 bit popcount is about 3% faster than the 32 bit version.  On the 32 bit
chips, the 64 bit instructions are pretty lack-luster.



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