Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:59:50 01/13/03
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On January 13, 2003 at 17:02:10, Sander de Zoete wrote: [snip] >It is >possible that, even with a relatively thorough evaluation function, the nps >(Nodes Per Second) rate could exceed 10,000,000. Since a bitboard is 8 bytes, that is 80 MB per second bandwidth, just moving the data with *no computations*. It would be quite a remarkable achievement if you could attain it. PCI-X can theoretically do 10x that, but we still have to deal with memory access speed.
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