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Subject: Re: How to make your movegen 4x slower in 1 easy step

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:43:00 08/30/01

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On August 30, 2001 at 14:25:39, Scott Gasch wrote:

>On August 30, 2001 at 14:07:50, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>
>>Dumb question:
>>Why not let them all have their own move generator and just share the hash
>>table?
>
>I guess that's one approach -- run them as seperate processes in seperate
>virtual address spaces and simply share the hash table.  I was planning on using
>simple threads in the same address space though.  Not sure why, seems more
>straightforward to me...


One reason is that there are other things to share.  Killer moves.  History
move counts.  move lists (you need to share a move list at a ply where more
than one processor is searching) and so forth...



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