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Subject: Re: Mixing 0x88 and bitboards

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:21:09 06/25/02

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On June 25, 2002 at 17:09:42, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>An intelligent compiler could produce better code with something like
>
>if (WhitePawns & (1ULL << E6))
>
>1 32-bit load,
>1 32-bit and, branch based on the flags.
>
>Of course, this optimization cannot work anymore, when E6 is "sq".

The load and and are 64-bit operations in the
example above. But, you could do it with 32-bits
via the trick you described earlier. (We already
know what half of the board we are interested in)

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GCP



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