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Subject: Re: TSCP and hash and SEE

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 14:39:13 01/15/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 13:13:18, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 14, 2004 at 23:22:46, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>On January 14, 2004 at 17:48:06, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>An aside:
>>>You can get a stupendous speed increase with TSCP by the addition of piece
>>>lists.
>>
>>I added a few bitboards to TSCP to act as piece lists once, and the speedup was
>>there, but not stupendous.  Something like 10-20% IIRC. Of course, that's not a
>>"real" piece list. You could use a real piece list to speed up the attack
>>detection, which is probably one of the most time consuming functions in TSCP.
>
>I bet you still iterated over the board.  The number 64 should almost never
>appear in the program.
>
>I got a 4-fold speedup, at least (hashing, piece lists, a few other trinkets).

I added half of the hashing today. I have to to use the hashmove to sort it in
the movelist. The hashspeed up is already 50% now. Piecelists is on my todo
list. Won't rest until they are in.



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