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Subject: Re: Crafty Benches

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:49:12 09/03/02

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On September 03, 2002 at 11:38:50, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>I've tried profiling with various test positions (like letting it go through WAC
>and once even mega.epd). For me though it was slower (in both finding positions
>overall and with the bench function). You would imagine it would be
>quite a bit better profiling multiple positions, or even during book creation so
>the profiler snags everything but unfortunately for me it didn't turn out that
>way. I do appreciate the suggestions.


The problem might be that you are "training" the optimizer to optimize for
tactical positions, which means no optimizing for normal positions.  That could
actually hurt overall performance, particularly when parts of the eval might
be skipped (endgame or opening code)...



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