Hello,
Will new Intel's 256-bit AVX instructions speed up chess engines ?
With best regards,
Yar
Chess engines and new 256-bit AVX instructions
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Re: Chess engines and new 256-bit AVX instructions
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So, for Chess... not likely that it will help, but I'm sure that there are others that are more qualified to answer...Intel® AVX (Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions) is a 256 bit instruction set extension to SSE and is designed for applications that are floating point intensive.
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Re: Chess engines and new 256-bit AVX instructions
Guess most "classical" engines will not - except some bitboard engines, explicitly and extensively using simd-approaches, i. e. kogge-stone fill stuff with quad-bitboards, which then fits in one ymm-register.Yar wrote:Hello,
Will new Intel's 256-bit AVX instructions speed up chess engines ?
With best regards,
Yar