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Subject: Re: The Zappa Attack Table Code

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 06:10:59 05/06/04

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On May 06, 2004 at 07:17:51, Vasik Rajlich wrote:

>Aside from 32 vs 64 bits, L2 cache is probably very important. Rybka's
>precomputed bitboard masks take just under 200 K (this # should be more or less
>the same for any rotated bitboard engine), but I don't know how this behaves in
>the cache.

It is possible to bring the size of the precomputed bitmap data for rotated
bitboards down to around 20 K (and perhaps even further).  You would need one
or two extra levels of lookup or calculations, though, and it is not at all
clear that it would result in a faster program.

Tord



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