Author: Michel Langeveld
Date: 11:25:58 10/26/99
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On October 26, 1999 at 13:15:09, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 25, 1999 at 18:21:20, Michel Langeveld wrote: >[snip] >>This Is what I thought also but I can remember from my latest profiler results >>that evaluate was _not_ that most costing function. I shall recheck this... >> >>Btw. (Same other point in the source) The book.c source is awfull... The only >>good thing about it now is that is is tested on multi platforms and that is >>works.. But I'm sure generating a book can be done in a more smarter form then >>generating all kind of tempory files. I hate also the giant malloc on line 864. > >Book only runs during the creation of the book (for me, about once every 2 >months or so). I think trying to make the code cleaner or faster is not such a >great idea, because it has very little effect on the execution of the program. >If you are modifying the current book code, you might want to hold off a bit, >since things are going to change quite a bit for version 17 of crafty. > >> >>Maybe a inserting with using a arching the book binary can clean much of the >>code and make it easily understandable. Since the makefile.nt works perfect for >>my I'm trying to changing things now in a good way at the moment... I shall give >>you all the modifications when the appear to better/faster/etc. >> >>I'm almost ready with stuffing all book positions to an epd file. So when >>generating a book simultaneasly and epd file is created of all positions in the >>book. This was only maybe 10 lines of adding code... >I would like to see the effect of adding *ALL* the CAP data as book positions. >There would be no won/loss/draw statistics, but it would be very valuable >(especially in blitz games) whenever there is a hit. It would also be very nice >to get the missing positions, ordered by frequency of occurence, in order to run >them through C.A.P. and fill out the book 100%. It would also be great to now analyse the "full" scott with CAP now but first analyze your a.pgn b.pgn c.pgn d.pgn e.pgn all positions. Then create a full book with it and then put all the positions to an epd file. Then sort it on occurence and then analyze this with cap from up to down....
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