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Subject: Re: MoveGen Speed

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 17:11:55 03/14/04

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On March 14, 2004 at 19:56:15, macaroni wrote:

>sorry, wasn't a good post...heres the details.
>it's 20 million *moves* generated, not 20 million calls to movegen. My comp is a
>p4 2.8 gHz.
>This probobly isn't such a good speed then i'm guessing?
>cheers
>Tor

Crafty on my Athlon XP 2400+ (2GHz) generates about 26 million moves per second.
Yace generates about 46 million. I'm pretty sure Yace is one of the faster move
generators though, so if you can't match that speed, don't lose any sleep over
it ;) But with 0x88 (or similar), you should probably be closer to Yace than
Crafty, since the advantage of bitboards (especially on 32-bit hardware) is not
move generation.

Run Crafty (with the "perft" command) and Yace (with the "speed" command) and
tell us what you get on your machine, then we will have an idea of how it
compares with your program. I would guess my Athlon 2GHz would be in the same
ballpark as your P4 2.8 GHz, but it would be better if we could compare all of
the numbers from the same machine (yours).



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