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Subject: Re: move_generation + hash

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:24:29 05/30/00

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On May 30, 2000 at 14:54:28, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>I assume that when Bob says he expects a 25% hit rate, he means 25% of the >times that the hash table is probed, and not 25% of the nodes.

Probably yes, so did I...

>Which means that more work needs to be done to estimate the speedup from the >optimization that started this thread, i.e., the equation becomes:
>
>speedup = (% hit rate) * (% hash probes) * (% hash move cutoffs) * (% of time
>spent doing move generation)
>
>Throwing in some extremely optimal numbers, the result is:
>
>0.5 * 0.2 * 0.5 * 0.2 = 1%
>
>So I think the best you can hope for is 1%. Seems like too much work for too
>little, to me.

If you do the same optimization for killer moves, how much can you hope for
then ?

This would be (killer move cutoffs) * (time doing move generation), right ?

The second term is pretty high for me, so I'm interested to know what the
first one will be. Anybody got any numbers on this ?

--
GCP



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