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Subject: Re: MMX instructions for bitboards

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 21:27:42 08/08/02

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On August 08, 2002 at 23:54:10, Matthew McKnight wrote:

>the MMX registers seem to be a good place for optimizing a chess program.  Is
>anyone using these for quick ANDs or ORs?  Or is the lack of useful MMX
>instructions too inhibiting?
>
>the only place I can see a gain by processing many bitboards at once would be in
>attacks() by generating rank,file,and diags all at once in the MM registers, but
>i might just end up needing more instructions for the MMX operations
>
>Anyone trying this?

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