+// Extracting the _signed_ lower and upper 16 bits it not so trivial
+// because according to the standard a simple cast to short is
+// implementation defined and so is a right shift of a signed integer.
+inline Value mg_value(Score s) { return Value(((int(s) + 32768) & ~0xffff) / 0x10000); }
+
+// Unfortunatly on Intel 64 bit we have a small speed regression, so use a faster code in
+// this case, although not 100% standard compliant it seems to work for Intel and MSVC.
+#if defined(IS_64BIT) && (!defined(__GNUC__) || defined(__INTEL_COMPILER))