Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:46:53 03/24/04
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On March 24, 2004 at 09:26:43, Jon Dart wrote: >On March 24, 2004 at 04:16:42, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I think that some test to test the quality of free source code evaluation may be >>interesting. >> >>The test should be done in the following way: >> >>1)Modify arasan's evaluation to be identical to phalanx's evaluation >>Modify it also to be identical to fruit's evaluation and the same for the other >>free programs. > >It is possible but you'd find it a bit challenging, I suspect. For example, >Arasan's board layout (mapping of indexes to squares) is actually different from >Crafty's and (I believe) Phalanx's. So you'd have to modify Phalanx's eval code >and couldn't drop it right in. > >Also, while I think the experiment would be interesting, there are lots of >variablse that affect a programs' overall performance. For example, Phalanx has >a different set of rules for extensions. Maybe its eval works well in >combination with the extensions but wouldn't be as effective in a program >without them. > >--Jon > > >--Jon I have no time to do this experiment and of course I suggested to change all programs to have all evaluations so we can also see if eval works well only in combination with extensions. Of course it is clear that you cannot drop evaluation of one program to another program and maybe the fastest way to do it is to start with translate program that translate the data structure of program A to the data structure of program B so you can later drop the evaluation of one program(of course the program is going to be significantly slower but it is possible to care that all programs will be slowed down by nearly the same factor so it is not very important). Uri
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