Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 11:25:24 12/22/05
Hi,
for all bitScan-collectors - just another one ;-)
It is not particular small, but portable, branchless, has cheap instructions and
no memory lookup. It seems faster than those based on double conversion (inlined
24 versus 40 amd64 cycles (32-bit mode, measured by rdtsc).
unsigned int bitScanReverse(BitBoard bb)
{
unsigned int l, h, i, m;
h = (unsigned int)(bb >> 32);
l = (unsigned int) bb;
m = h != 0;
i = m << 5; // 0|32
l = (h & -m) | (l & m-1);
m = (l > 0xffff) << 4; // 0|16
i += m;
l >>= m;
m = ((0xff-l)>>16) & 8; // 0|8
i += m;
l >>= m;
m = ((0x0f-l)>> 8) & 4; // 0|4
l >>= m;
return i + m + ((0xffffaa50u >> (2*l)) & 3);
}
It is based on the conditional "divide and conquer" one, posted here by Eugene
Nalimov. The folding is implemented branchless, eg. the word/byte folding:
if (l & 0xff00) {
i += 8;
l >>= 8;
}
m = (l > 0xff) << 3;
i += m;
l >>= m;
or
m = ((0xff-l)>>16) & 8;
i += m;
l >>= m;
While Eugene used a final lookup[foldedByte]
or with only 16-bit folding lookup[foldedWord],
here the final pre-lookup step is folding from byte to nibble for an
in-register-lookup with 2bit[16], as suggested by Paul Womack in comp.arch on
May 15, 2000.
Gerd
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