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Subject: Re: 0x88 and move generator speed - My results

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 05:13:18 02/01/01

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>you need one more test.  How quickly can you generate _only_ capture
>moves?  That is the biggest part of the total move generation process,
>because of the q-search.  And that is a place where bitmaps really shines
>brightly.  IE I can generate captures _just_ as quickly as I can generate
>non-captures.  I don't have to cull non-captures or anything, after the
>fact... I just never generate them in the first place...

I didn't quite follow. I don't understand the word "cull" - I don't have a
dictionary available right now...  And what do you mean by "I can generate
captures _just_ as quickly as I can generate non-captures"?  Are you doing both
in the same function, I assume not? I have two functions : gen_captures and
gen_non_captures. Of cource gen_captures is the the one which should be fast and
I can generate them separately.  But  this test still gives you some figure on
how fast you generate moves - captures or non-captures.  It may indeed be that
one could make capture generation faster and same time affecting non-capture
generation (is this what you meant). In that case this test gives "wrong"
result.

Severi



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