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Subject: Re: assembler vs. C

Author: Bo Persson

Date: 09:50:31 11/02/99

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On November 02, 1999 at 11:18:55, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On November 02, 1999 at 04:57:11, Dominic Marcello wrote:
>
[...]
>>  Also, is it worth using 64 bitboards on a machine with 32 bit registers? GCC
>>can emulate it (long long int), but the resulting code looks rather messy.
>
>If you need 64 bits bitboard, you can go for it. The performances on a 32 bits
>processor will not be the best,

But not too bad either! The P5/P6 generations can execute 2-3 instructions per
clock cycle, in effect turning a 64 bit instruction into two parallell 32 bit
operations. Hard to tell the difference :-)

> but it is assumed that future processors will
>either offer 64 bits support or will execute the 2x32 bits operations needed to
>manipulate 64 bits faster because of better parallelization.



Bo Persson
bop@malmo.mail.telia.com



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