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Aart Bik authored
Rationale: Recognizing this important operation as an intrinsic has various advantages: (1) having the no-side-effects/no-throw allows for much more GVN/LICM/BCE. (2) Some architectures, like x86_64, provide direct support for this operation. Performance improvements on X86_64: CheckersEvalBench (32-bit bitboard): 27,210KNS -> 36,798KNS = + 35% ReversiEvalBench (64-bit bitboard): 52,562KNS -> 89,086KNS = + 69% Change-Id: I65d549b0469b7909b12c6611cdc34a8640a5751f
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