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Subject: Re: Bitboard representation

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 09:56:58 09/30/02

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On September 30, 2002 at 04:29:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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.

Thank you!  :-)


>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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