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Ivanhoe question: default, popcnt, or prefetch?

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:03 am
by notyetagm
The Ivanhoe RAR file that I downloaded from http://www.chesslogik.com/downloads/IvanHoe_999957a.rar has engines under each of three folders: default, popcnt, and prefetch.

Which one should I use? What is the difference?

Thanks

Re: Ivanhoe question: default, popcnt, or prefetch?

Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:45 pm
by Bo Persson
notyetagm wrote:The Ivanhoe RAR file that I downloaded from http://www.chesslogik.com/downloads/IvanHoe_999957a.rar has engines under each of three folders: default, popcnt, and prefetch.

Which one should I use? What is the difference?

Thanks
The default should work on most hardware. The others might be slightly faster on computers having the popcnt and prefetch instructions (and not work at all otherwise).