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Subject: Re: MSVC++ 5.0 Profiler

Author: Ren Wu

Date: 13:01:28 08/05/99

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On August 05, 1999 at 15:01:40, James Robertson wrote:

>I finally figured out how to make the profiler work.... unfortunately, every
>time I profile my program, I get different results. For instance, with three
>identical profiles, my SEE code took 30.5%, 10.8%, and 18.8%, respectively. My
>UnMakeMove routine took 2.6%, 14.4%, and 0.0% with the three profiles.

You need many positions, and run many times. This is life.

>Does anyone else have this problem? There is no hard disk swapping during the
>profiles, and I let my program think for 60 seconds after which it exits
>automatically.

60 seconds is way too short, MS's profiler slow down your program by maybe 50x,
so you need run it with 50x more time, or 3000 seconds.

You can try to run it over night on a set of positions.

Ren.



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