Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 05:43:47 08/07/03
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On August 07, 2003 at 08:37:47, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 07, 2003 at 08:08:57, Sune Fischer wrote: > >If you have a lot of inline assembly Sune, then you really >can't expect the compiler to speed you up a lot. It's like saying: >"optimize my path to get to amsterdam but be sure that you travel over >arnhem and utrecht". Right, but doesn't hurt if you're sure this is the fastest route. If you're gonna write assembly, it better be good assembly! >then you penalize it first. > >Inline assembly is showing in general a wrong approach to the problem of chess >IMHO. Try inline assembly at an itanium :) For portablity and maintenance reasons I agree, keep it to a minimum. But when you suddenly see a few hotspost disappear when rewritten to assembly, it's hard to resist the temptation :) -S.
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