Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 15:10:21 03/19/99
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On March 19, 1999 at 18:08:02, Dann Corbit wrote: >Actually, something very strange is at work here. Now that I look closely, the >data objects are the same size. Are you sure that you have the optimization >settings unchanged? Maybe you used a debug build for timing on the P90? Did >you change the instruction mix? > >My previous remarks assumed that you expanded the tables. Since they are the >same size, it is not the memory I/O that is a problem. > >Both lookups should be of identical speed. The way it was before should involve fewer instructions, which should mean that it is faster, although who can ever tell on a Pentium. Not 30% though, it would be more like 0%, since there is a whole bunch of chess program surrounding all of this. Not quite "identical" though. bruce
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