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Subject: Re: Efficient Rotated Bitboard Representations

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 04:27:43 10/31/98

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On October 29, 1998 at 13:20:45, Roberto Waldteufel wrote:
[snip]
>Of course, once I started using assembler on the intel CPU, the bsf and bsr
>instructions were a god-send and I stopped all this nonsense with modular
>arithmetic....:-)
>
>Best wishes,
>Roberto

I thought these instructions were microcoded and extremely slow on anything
newer than a 386! When testing on a Pentium, a table lookup was actually much
faster for me.


Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com



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