Author: José Carlos
Date: 06:21:42 04/17/01
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On April 17, 2001 at 03:08:42, Tony Werten wrote: >On April 16, 2001 at 18:15:52, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > >>In a different discussion, Vincent wrote the following: >> >>>It is not difficult to implement the form of parallellism as used by >>>Rudolf. Invented by a frenchman who couldn't spell a word english and >>>who wrote an impossible article for JICCA (did anyone proofread it at >>>the time as i'm pretty sure they didn't get his parallel idea?). >>> >>>At the time when i read the article i was pathetically laughing about it >>>actually as i also didn't get the idea of the frenchman. But it appears >>>everyone who can make a chessprogram work under win2000 can also get >>>within an afternoon his program parallel to work. Then some debugging >>>and a day later it works cool. >> >>I'd be very interested in this algorithm, that can be implemented at an >>afternoon :-) >> >>Could you point elaborate on this. >> >>BTW. In Paderborn, Roland Pfister also told me, that he knows this from Rudolf >>Huber, and he even started to explain it to me. Somhow, we (or me) got >>distracted, and I cannot remember the essential things. >> >>What I remember is, that the time consuming work, of making your >>search/evaluation routines free from all those global variables is not needed. >> >>Regards, >>Dieter > >I haven't tried parallelism yet, but my (very) simple approach would be: > >Since my program spends most of its time in eval(), split it in evalblack() and >evalwhite(). No need for many changes. Haven't got a clue what the speedup would >be, but it's easy to try. > >cheers, > >Tony Are you sure you spend most of your time in eval? My problem is inCheck() since ever. That's where my prog spends most of the time. The good thing is that, everytime I want to improve the speed of my program, I know exactly where to focus on :) I suggest you to profile your program to know exactly where the time is spend, although probably you've already done this. José C.
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