Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:50:15 08/13/98
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On August 13, 1998 at 06:10:42, Guido Schimmels wrote: > >On August 13, 1998 at 05:38:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>... on the Cray,we moved the chess board into a single vector register and >>*never* touched that so the board was always instantly available. > >...do you think Motorola's 'AltiVec' is usefull for chess-programming ? > >- Guido - No idea... vectorization and chess don't particularly fit together very well, until the chess programmer immerses himself in vector processing, gets used to the hardware vector facilities the machine offers (all vector machines are *not* the same) and then gives a lot of thought to how some chess-specific things might be redesigned to use this hardware. For Cray Blitz, this was a 10 year off-and-on project...
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