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Subject: Re: 64 bits

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 14:54:53 06/19/02

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On June 18, 2002 at 21:05:37, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>Crafty does not seem to benefit [significantly?] from the wider datapath.

I haven't looked at the instruction set for the 64-bit processors, but
if they tossed the BSF/BSR instructions that is definitely going to dent
the possible speed increase of moving a bitboard program to a 64-bit machine.

Will it be enough to offset the extra data bandwidth, time will tell.

regards,
--"the other" tom



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