Author: Dan Newman
Date: 12:20:24 07/20/98
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On July 20, 1998 at 14:36:12, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 20, 1998 at 14:30:47, Dan Newman wrote: > >>One of the biggest effects I see is that I get a much larger node rate >>the longer I run. If I run a test for 10 s I might get 170 knps. If >>I run for 40 s 200 knps. It does level off of course. I'm using a >>P6/200, so I've attributed this effect to improving branch prediction >>as the code runs. Any ideas? > >Maybe it has something to do with the deeper search having characterstics that >differ from the shallower search. > >bruce I bet that's it or at least a lot of it. The major difference is that the deeper plies will have fewer pieces on average. So move generation will be a little cheaper, a smaller portion of the moves generated will be wasted, and so forth. -Dan.
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