Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:34:11 06/16/00
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On June 16, 2000 at 15:59:39, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On June 16, 2000 at 13:49:49, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Minimax: 2219093 >>Alpha-beta: 1753779 >> >>This was on my 800MHz Pentium III. >> >>-Tom > >Probably the reason this happened is that there is more search overhead in >alpha-beta, because your big loop will not execute as many times if you use >alpha-beta. The tree searched is deeper and less bushy, so you get more move >generations, recursive function calls, etc. > >If the eval function slows down significantly, NPS should become more identical. > >The initial question is kind of pointless though. It's like comparing the >performance of strlen versus that of strcat. It's not like the one replaces the >other. > >bruce Right, I was just trying to show that there's not a factor of 5 difference. -Tom
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