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Subject: Re: new computer chess effort

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:24:29 12/21/99

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On December 21, 1999 at 08:49:08, Albert Silver wrote:

>On December 21, 1999 at 02:05:54, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
>>On December 21, 1999 at 01:39:44, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>>You are assuming that it's needlessly inefficient? Why?
>>>
>>>Experience with those I have seen only.
>>
>>Ah. So you don't know if the program I am referring to is inefficient just
>>because it spends 90% of its time in eval. So, nothing much learned, except that
>>you know that sometimes that means something bad.
>>
>>You can probably assume that anyone thinking about sending an eval to silicon
>>would make sure it's reasonably optimized first.

2 approaches:
  - running it in software before putting it to hardware
  - using hardware that's reprogrammable for testing

>>-- g
>
>So what engine uses 90% of its time on the eval? I'm curious.

Mine is. And that 90% is just the full eval which is getting used in 40% of
the cases. In 60% of the cases i'm getting the eval out of hashtables.



>                                 Albert Silver



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