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Subject: Re: Crap statement refuted about parallel speedup

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:04:52 09/23/01

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On September 23, 2001 at 18:30:08, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On September 22, 2001 at 17:22:58, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Then have the programmmer do "worst-first" move ordering instead.  Then the
>>parallel speedup will look very impressive...
>
>I thought we talk about crafty and cray blitz here.
>
>Crafty even orders moves near random after you have had killermoves, hashtable
>move and capture SEE!

No it doesn't.  It uses the history heuristic.  And it also generates moves in
a specific order when history doesn't help...  Neither history nor specific
generation order is "random".




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