Author: Aaron Gordon
Date: 17:18:57 08/17/03
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On August 17, 2003 at 19:05:57, Michael P. Nance Sr. wrote: >On August 17, 2003 at 17:44:53, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On August 17, 2003 at 17:34:14, William Penn wrote: >> >>>I've noticed that when running Shredder 7.04 UCI engine in CB Shredder 7 GUI in >>>infinite analysis mode, there's a problem with the kN and kN/s counters after >>>the total KN exceeds about 4,200,000. That's not an exact number, but >>>approximated. >> >>I can make the pretty precise gues that problems start after 4,294,967,295 >>nodes. >> >> >>>In any case, kN reverts to zero at that point and begins counting >>>up again. The value of kN/s also drops to zero then start increasing again (very >>>slowly). I believe the 7.04 engine continues to work OK, just that counter is >>>buggy. >> >>It's not buggy, it's 32 bit. >> >>Tony >> >> >>>WP >So with 64 bit technology it would go further? I'm sure all they'd have to do is change the counter from an unsigned int to a float, double, or 64bit integer and recompile. Any cpu today could display > 2^32 with ease.. so.. no, you wouldn't need a 64bit cpu to be able to do this.
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