Author: Gareth McCaughan
Date: 18:08:40 12/11/01
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On December 11, 2001 at 18:22:27, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 11, 2001 at 18:01:27, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > >>On December 11, 2001 at 17:07:17, David Hanley wrote: >> >>> Curious : how many NPS are you getting out of your python program? >>> My lisp program is getting 3,500NPS on a pentium 200 with zero >>> optimizations. I think a faster computer and optimizations would >>> increase that tenfold, at least. >> >>How many NPS? Oh, *several*. :-) Seriously: between about 30 and >>about 100, on a 1GHz Athlon. It would probably be possible to get >>another factor of 10 without much pain; the implementation is >>very inefficient at the moment. (Remember it's intended to give >>a fairly level game to a 5-year-old.) If I count all nodes >>encountered in the qsearch, the level is more consistent; usually >>80-100NPS. >> >>I realise that I did the program a disservice when I described >>its features. It does a few simple search extensions too. > >I'd like to see the source code, if you allow that. I'm pretty curious as to >what it looks like. It looks like a nasty weekend hack. There's a reason for this. :-) I'm not keen on distributing the source any further than necessary, for fear of embarrassment. Some day I might clean it up, but I'm more likely to write something entirely from scratch, in a language better suited to chess programs. However: yes, you can see the source code. Is the e-mail address at solutionsiq.com a good place to send it? -- g
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