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Subject: Re: Programming question.

Author: Inmann Werner

Date: 15:17:56 03/19/99

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On March 19, 1999 at 18:10:21, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>
>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.
>
Why fewer instructions. I did not change the instructions in the code in any
way!

>Not 30% though, it would be more like 0%, since there is a whole bunch of chess
>program surrounding all of this.

I think, all other chess programs use my "new" version because the old one is
dumb.

>
>Not quite "identical" though.

Sure nit identical, but what goes on here?

>
>bruce



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