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Subject: Re: Reverse Bitboards

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:59:50 01/13/03

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On January 13, 2003 at 17:02:10, Sander de Zoete wrote:
[snip]
>It is
>possible that, even with a relatively thorough evaluation function, the nps
>(Nodes Per Second) rate could exceed 10,000,000.

Since a bitboard is 8 bytes, that is 80 MB per second bandwidth, just moving the
data with *no computations*.  It would be quite a remarkable achievement if you
could attain it.

PCI-X can theoretically do 10x that, but we still have to deal with memory
access speed.



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