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Subject: Re: Bitboard representation

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 15:27:17 09/29/02

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On September 29, 2002 at 18:09:02, Arshad Syed wrote:

>Would bitboards be the best way in which to represent piece positions or would
>this be inefficient since the current Pentiums use 32 bit architecture.

It is not terribly inefficient, as all Pentiums can execute 2 or 3 instructions
in parallell. That makes them sort of 64 bit anyway (2 times 32 really :-).

Bo Persson
bop2@telia.com




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