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Subject: Re: simple question about bitboards

Author: Dezhi Zhao

Date: 07:06:47 03/27/03

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On March 27, 2003 at 05:35:10, Uri Blass wrote:

>If I want to get rid of the least significant 1 of a BitBoard
>I do for a bitboard a
>a&=a-1
>
>What is the fastest way to get rid of the most significant 1 of
>a bitboard?
>
>Is it slower than a&=a-1 and how much slower?
>(it cannot be faster otherwise popcount of crafty could use it).
>
>Uri

To my best knowlege, there is no such well known trick for the most significant
bit.

Maybe we can send a wish list to Intel and AMD for some new instructions.
To seed the list:

1. bsfr : bit scan forward and reset
2. bsrr : bit scan backward and reset

requirements: NOT in slow microcode or latency <= 2 cycle:)

dzhao





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