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Subject: Re: move_generation + hash

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 07:20:34 05/31/00

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On May 31, 2000 at 01:10:52, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On May 30, 2000 at 21:48:52, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>>All I'm saying is that the numbers you gave (e.g. 25%) are (hash hits/hash
>>>probes) and not (hash hits/nodes). The latter is what's more important in this
>>>case.
>>>
>>>-Tom
>>
>>
>>That number would be meaningless.  Of course you can't "hit" if you don't
>>"probe".  Who would care?  I only want to know what percentage of the time I
>>get a hit after doing a probe...  which seems like the only reasonable measure
>>of anything.  If a program probes in the q-search, those numbers would match
>>mine _exactly_ since in his case, probes == nodes.
>
>No, that number would NOT be meaningless.
>
>Sure, if you are trying to gague the effectiveness of a hash entry replacement
>scheme, it makes more sense to measure hits/probes. But in this case, "we" need
>to find out how many times the hash move can short-circuit move generation. So
>unless you don't generate moves in qsearch() either, the number is important.
>
>-Tom

I agree, I want to know both. I am redoing my hash completely and will post the
numbers coming weekend. It's nice that I now know what to measure exactly.


Regards,
Bas Hamstra.







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