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Subject: Re: Some questions about PVs

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 07:11:48 07/27/01

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Hi

On July 26, 2001 at 17:51:01, Artem Pyatakov wrote:

>I was looking at the source codes of Gerbil and Crafty and noticed that they
>handle the following problem differently: as part of the iterate/think loops
>both programs try to force their program to search the PV nodes from the
>previous iteration first, which makes sense, but the implementation of this is
>very different.
>
>Gerbil just saves the PV into a separate array, while Crafty saves the PV into
>the hash table.

I use neither and just hope that the hashtable already contains the PV. I think
that the chance that the PV is already overwritten is pretty high though. (that
would explain my rather big search trees compared to other engines)

Regards,

Sargon



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