Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 13:31:20 09/11/02
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On September 11, 2002 at 04:08:52, Fabien Letouzey wrote: [snipped much of the very interesting post] >Disclaimer (silly attempt to avoid yet another time-wasting flame thread). [...] >- I do not claim that this method is fast; it is even slower than the > traditional way of updating the PV when (value > alpha && value < beta). [...] >Since the >semi-PV is updated much more often than a traditional PV (most of the work >beeing useless, but you cannot know beforehand), its computation is slower. In my engine, I allways update, what you call "semi-PVs" (for other reasons, I do not use MTD(f)). When I last checked the performance penalty for this, it was essentially too small, to be measurable. In cases, where the tail of the PV, that has to be updated, is long, the engine will have done some enomours work, to get this, compared to the actual update process. Regards, Dieter
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