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Subject: Re: Crafty profits little from Itanium and Opteron versus Commercials

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 05:50:14 08/07/03

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On August 07, 2003 at 08:43:47, Sune Fischer wrote:

>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 :)

But then ones program must be either incredible simple or you must be fulltime
working at your chessprogram!

>-S.



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