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Subject: Re: Hashing

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 11:23:19 04/05/03

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On April 05, 2003 at 14:06:05, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 05, 2003 at 13:52:54, Angrim wrote:
>
>>Hmm, do you mean 9% faster NPS? if so your move ordering has likely been
>>hurt by the new hash method, since no way the hashing was taking 9% of
>>the time before.
>
>It was 9% faster in calculating perft, so no move ordering. The only thing I can
>think of is that the CPU liked working with two 32-bit keys seperately instead
>of one 64-bit key. Maybe the compiler was able to perform an extra optimization.
>Who knows.

It is possible.

It happened to me today that I added a function to my program and I wanted to
check how much slower my program becomes from it(only from calculating the
information without using it).

I was surpried to find out that it became 1% faster.

Uri



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