Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:14:51 08/19/02
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On August 19, 2002 at 07:34:45, maria clara benedicto wrote: >gosh! i feel encouraged to try chess programming again. > >so inspiring words > >thanks > >maria Note that I understand almost nothing from the last words but it did not prevent me to develop my program. I do not use the key word register in movei and I give the compiler the job to decide about the important variables to be in the fast memory. I care about speed but only about speed of the algorithm. Uri > > > >On August 18, 2002 at 22:53:21, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>\ >> >>Impossible is the _wrong_ term. You should spend more time trying to figure >>out _how_ to do something, rather than wasting so much time trying to figure >>out why you _can't_ do something... >> >>There are ways around this. I had _exactly_ the same issue on the Cray. We >>had 32 bit and 64 bit registers. The 32 bit registers were really designed >>for address calculations (array indexes, etc). But we used them for real >>stuff in generating moves, evaluating positions, etc. And we learned how to >>overcome the penalty required to move data between the incompatible register >>types. It is called "doing it before you need it so you don't have to wait >>once you _really_ need it..." >> >>It is not hard... >> >> >> >>
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