Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:02:28 04/15/03
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On April 15, 2003 at 14:30:16, Uri Blass wrote: >On April 15, 2003 at 14:05:23, Jaime Benito de Valle Ruiz wrote: > >>Maybe I'm saying something stupid, but having extra functions might reduce the >>efectiveness of the cache. My previous chess program had 4 functions as well, >>and wasn't really a big improvement, it was messier and extra work for me, so >>I'm using two again. >>I don't think the compiler is going to do a worse job anyway. Try checking your >>complied assembly code for optimizations, it works for me. >> >>Jaime > >I do not know much about the cache and I also know nothing about asembler. >I know from experience that there were cases when extra functions >helped movei to be faster. > >Uri I can add that it is possible that this trick work until some limit and the question is if there is a way to know the limit not by try and error. Uri
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