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Subject: Re: Dr. Hyatt: Does Crafty 19.6 have more knowledge than preceding versi

Author: Frank Phillips

Date: 10:00:21 12/07/03

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On December 07, 2003 at 10:22:47, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 07, 2003 at 03:21:17, Luis Smith wrote:
>
>>>Yes, this is a continual process...
>>>
>>>But 19.6 is no different than 19.5 except for NUMA support...
>>
>>How do you improve upon a program which has so many things?  Obviously you can
>>improve on strength, but Crafty already has most or all of the well known
>>techniques in them.
>>
>>So the question is I guess, what is on your to-do list?  What can we expect from
>>Crafty in the future?
>
>
>
>After I finish the Linux-NUMA stuff, it's back to the two usual things
>that need work:
>
>1.  evaluation.  There are still things that are either missing, not implemented
>very cleanly, or need tuning.
>
>2.  search.  There are still things that are untried here as well, from forward
>pruning to better extension tuning or new extensions, not to mention possible
>changes to the q-search which is now very simple-minded.


I think the ~6.5M nps were helping a bit on ICC last night ;-)



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