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Subject: Re: late move reductions (and another question)

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 14:07:23 03/03/06

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On March 03, 2006 at 16:22:41, Tord Romstad wrote:

>On March 03, 2006 at 16:08:50, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>Our thoughts are probably just a reflex reaction based on the bad experience
>>from nonlocking hashtable sharing.
>
>In fact, I don't lock the hash table either.  :-)
>
>I agree that I *should* lock the hash table, or use Bob's lockless hashing
>trick.
>So far, I have just been too lazy to implement it.  I haven't noticed any bad
>effects of non-locking hash table sharing so far, but of course this doesn't
>mean that it hasn't happened.

Bob's trick makes perfect sense with a rather small impact (performance and
implementation wise), but it's less urgent with few processors and large memory.

Tony

PS I'm not sure how much longer I can sit here. Anybody had a vasectomy as well
?


>
>Tord



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