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Subject: Re: Bitboard representation

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 01:29:26 09/30/02

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On September 29, 2002 at 18:27:17, Bo Persson wrote:

>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

it is terrible inefficient. However knowing that much about a processor to
get fast at it, that's limited to a handful of dudes worldwide. So what
most people go for is to use that what they can cut'n paste and call their
own engine.

Best regards,
Vincent



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