After Joost Buijs wrote on another forum that the PEXT instruction is very slow on AMD processors, I decided to check it, as kingsrow uses PEXT in the indexing for the eval function. I check if PEXT is available and use it if it is. It normally gives about a 10% search speedup. If PEXT is not available, a software emulation is used that does a few shifts and AND/OR's.
Krzysztof has an AMD TR4 Ryzen Threadripper 1950x. He kindly ran an experiment for me and recorded these kingsrow search speeds:
- Using my software emulation of SHIFT/AND/OR's: 6712 KN/s
- Using the PEXT intrinsic: 3072 KN/s
PEXT is *really* slow on AMD! I will modify kingsrow to not use it on AMD.
-- Ed
Using PEXT on AMD processors
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