Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:30:11 12/24/03
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On December 24, 2003 at 23:24:39, Sean Mintz wrote: >I recall you once mentioning changing crafty's bitboards to the ''intel way''. >Might it still happen? What could we expect from such a change? > >Sean Mintz Nothing significant. IE we are talking about one subtract operation here and there. But it would be simpler, and make the FirstOne()/LastOne() stuff a bit cleaner. I may do this when I eventually go to version 20, the reason I have not done so yet is that it would require a new book since the square numbers would change. I have an enumerated type to make it somewhat easier than it might be, but it would still wreck the existing binary book files, and I plan on re-doing the book to make it portable from big-endian to little-endian at the same time...
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