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Subject: Re: Attack Tables

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 10:38:45 06/27/01

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On June 27, 2001 at 00:02:09, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 26, 2001 at 12:00:26, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 26, 2001 at 11:06:35, Dan Andersson wrote:
>>
>>that's why bitboards get still used by people at 32 bits processors.
>>They never took effort to measure how fast/slow it is.
>
>
>
>Or maybe we just look to the future.  The world will be 64 bits in another
>year or two.  Why stay in the stone age?

>People were saying the same thing about 32 bit programs 10 years ago...

I port DIEP within 1 week of work to 64 bits if everyone on this planet
has a 64 bits machine.

>
>>
>>>In most cases I get all the information I need from one or a few indirect memory
>>>lookups, that's not too slow IMO. In my case, the Attackboard is used in
>>>conjunction with an efficient conventional representation. I do feel that it's
>>>correct to incrementally update variables that are used to either improve move
>>>ordering or create cutoffs. As for speed of implementation I cannot really
>>>compare figures, since I reuse a lot of data i.e. the behaviour will be
>>>asymptotic (and very fast) and not representative of its behaviour on a
>>>completely new position. But on closely similar positions (for example a
>>>sequence of positions in a line searched) it has a good performance.
>>>
>>>Regards Dan Andersson



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