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Subject: Re: Which engines support 64 bit node counter?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:48:40 05/18/03

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On May 17, 2003 at 14:35:43, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>>
>>BTW. I started to change for one counter as an experiment (the normal node
>>counter), and used unsigned long long and double. The funny result: with both
>>methods, the program ran reproducably 0.5% faster ...
>>
>Are you telling when replacing "unsigned long" for the type of the node-count
>variable by "long long" or "double", then your program would run faster ?
>
>I guess, I got this wrong. Did I, Dieter ?
>
>Uli


This sometimes happens.  Because of some serendipity thrown into the equation
by additional instructions needed to handle the extra 32 bits + the carry
operation.  It is not uncommon to simply move a piece of code around and notice
a change in speed (sometimes faster, sometimes slower).




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