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Subject: Re: How about 64-bits?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 16:57:45 10/14/02

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On October 14, 2002 at 18:55:00, Gerd Isenberg wrote:

>Some current MMX-drawbacks, like expensive "movd" vector-path instructions to
>pass mmx to reg32 will disappear with hammer. Hammer will have 16! 128-bit
>XMM-registers, with  SSE2 and 3Dnow instructions. You can generate two attack
>sets for one kind of piece simultaniously.

Wow, it sounds like you could store an entire bitboard based position in just
the MMX registers on the Hammer. That could make things interesting :)

I always find it fascinating to think what will be possible in the future.

Russell



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