ENABLE_OPERATORS_ON has incorrect definitions of
post-increment and post-decrement operators.
In particularly the returned value is the variable
already incremented/decremented, while instead they
should return the variable _before_ inc/dec.
This has no real effect because are only used in loops
and where the returned value is never used, neverthless
it is wrong. The fix would be to copy the variable to a
dummy, then inc/dec the variable, then return the dummy.
So instead, rename to pre-increment that can be implemented
without the dummy, actually the current implementation
it is already the correct pre-increment, with the only change
to return a reference (an l-value) and not a copy, so
to properly mimic the pre-increment on native integers.
Spotted by Kojirion.
No functional change.
And #ifdef instead of #if defined
This is more standard form (see for example iostream file).
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Partially revert previous patch and use
unlikey() just as code annotation.
Actually it is better to rely on a profiler for branch prediction:
http://blog.man7.org/2012/10/how-much-do-builtinexpect-likely-and.html
"In fact, even when only one in ten thousand values is nonzero,
we're still at only roughly the break-even point"
No functional change,
This patch is the sum of:
- Grainsize of 4 instead of 8
- Removing "depth < DEPTH_ZERO"
- Change DEPTH_QS_RECAPTURES = -5 to -7
All the patches individually failed to pass SPRT but scored
around 50%.
Together they pass easily short TC:
LLR: 2.96 (-2.94,2.94)
Total: 4429 W: 964 L: 844 D: 2621
And with some difficult long TC of 60+0.05:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94)
Total: 64133 W: 11968 L: 11532 D: 40633
bench: 4821467
But this time do not play with pointers, in
particular do not assume that size_t is an
unsigned type of the same width as pointers.
This code should be fully portable.
No functional change.
Let TT clusters (16*4=64 bytes) to hold on a singe cache line.
This avoids the need for the double prefetch.
Original patches by Lucas and Jean-Francois that has also tested
on his AMD FX:
BIG HASHTABLE
./stockfish bench 1024 1 18 > /dev/null
Before:
1437642 nps
1426519 nps
1438493 nps
After:
1474482 nps
1476375 nps
1475877 nps
SMALL HASHTABLE
./stockfish bench 128 1 18 > /dev/null
Before:
1435207 nps
1435586 nps
1433741 nps
After:
1479143 nps
1471042 nps
1472286 nps
No functional change.
Rename to insertion_sort so to avoid confusion
with std::sort, also move it to movepicker.cpp
and use the bit slower std::stable_sort in
search.cpp where it is used in not performance
critical paths.
No functional change.
Test by Joona prooves the new feature don't value 70 added lines of code.
Grand totals after 10040 games (crashes: 0) for tt_both
master_9edc7 - 6a93488_6a934: 1756 - 1688 - 6596 ELO +2 (+- 2.7)
Confirmed by test of Gary:
After 8680 games:
ELO: 0.80 +- 99%: 9.62 95%: 7.31
LOS: 65.38%
Wins: 1288 Losses: 1268 Draws: 6130
Thanks a lot to both for testing it !!!
bench 5149248
This is more complex than what I'd like but I
was unable to split in small chunks.
Here we add 2 slots to TTEntry (valueUpper and depthUpper)
so that sizeof(TTEntry) returns to the original 16 bytes
and we can pack exactly 4 entries in a 64 bytes cache line.
Now we save an upper bound score alongside a lower (exact)
score. The idea is to increase TT cut-offs rates becuase
there is now an higher probability for a node to use TT info.
This patch is highly experimental and probably needs further
steps as is hinted by an unrealistic bench number:
bench: 2022385
In almost all cases we already know in advance that
color_of() argument is different from NO_PIECE.
So avoid the check for NO_PIECE in color_of() and
test at caller site in the very few places where
this case could occur.
As a nice side effect, this patch fixes a (bogus)
warning under some versions of gcc.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Both Lucas re-test and Jean-Francois confirrm it
is a regression.
Here Jean-Francois's results after 3600 games :
Score of 96d3b1c92b vs 3b87314: 690 - 729 - 2181 [0.495] 3600
ELO: -3.86 +- 99%: 14.94 95%: 11.35
LOS: 15.03%
Wins: 690 Losses: 729 Draws: 2181 Total: 3600
Bench: 5404066
Don't prune and eventually extend check moves of type
DISCO_CHECK (pun intended, Lucas will understand :-) ).
Patch from Lucas Braesch that has also tested it:
Result: 879-661-2137, score=52.96%, LOS=100.00% (time 10"+0.1")
I have started a verification test right now.
bench: 6004966
We send to GUI multi-pv info after each cycle,
not just once at the end of the PV loop. This is
because at high depths a single root search can
be very slow and we want to update the gui as
soon as we have a new PV score.
Idea is good but implementation is broken because
sort() takes as arguments a pointer to the first
element and one past the last element.
So fix the bug and rename sort arguments to better
reflect their meaning.
Another hit by Hongzhi Cheng. Impressive!
No functional change.
When using the Makefile (as for the mingw case),
IS_64BIT and USE_BSFQ are already set with
ARCH=x86-64 and do not need to be redefined.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Are used by Position but do not belong to that class,
there is only one instance of them (that's why were
defined as static), so move to a proper namespace instead.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Calculate the attacks only for the piece to disambiguate,
not for all.
Also some reformatting while there.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Error is due to ambiguous overloading of operator^
because we have both the built-in operator^(int, int)
and the user defined operator^(Bitboard, Square).
This error does not trigger when using Makefile becuase,
due to luck, the user defined operator^(Bitboard, Square)
happens to be always defined _after_ opposite_colors() so
that compiler does not claim. But in case of Microsoft MSVC
we don't have a Makefile and the order of files compilation
is chosen by the compiler (in an unpredictable way). So it
could still happen that error is not detected (as in my case),
but in another case the order of compilation of the files could
be so that at some point both operator^ were defined before
opposite_colors() and this triggers the error.
The fix is much simpler than the explanation :-)
Reported by Quocvuong82.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
To be aligned with PolyGlot book castle right definitions.
This will be used by next patch.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
It seems ADL lookup is broken with the STLPort library. Peter says:
The compiler is gcc 4.4.3, but I don't know how many patches they
have applied to it. I think gcc has had support for Koenig lookup
a long time. I think the problem is the type of the vector iterator.
For example, line 272 in search.cpp:
if (bookMove && count(RootMoves.begin(), RootMoves.end(), bookMove))
gives the error:
jni/stockfish/search.cpp:272: error: 'count' was not declared in this scope
Here RootMoves is:
std::vector<RootMove> RootMoves;
If std::vector<T>::iterator is implemented as T*, then Koenig lookup
would fail because RootMove* is not in namespace std.
I compile with the stlport implementation of STL, which in its vector
class has:
typedef value_type* iterator;
I'm not sure if this is allowed by the C++ standard. I did not find
anything that says the iterator type must belong to namespace std.
The consensus in this thread
http://compgroups.net/comp.lang.c++.moderated/argument-dependent-lookup/433395
is that the stlport iterator type is allowed.
Report and patch by Peter Osterlund.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Hex representation doesn't add any value in those cases.
Preserve hex representation where more self-documenting
for instance for binary masks values.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
In Young Brothers Wait Concept (YBWC) available slaves are
booked by the split point master, then start to search below
the assigned split point and, once finished, return in idle
state waiting to be booked by another master.
This patch introduces "Active Reparenting" so that when a
slave finishes its job on the assigned split point, instead
of passively waiting to be booked, searches a suitable active
split point and reprents itselfs to that split point. Then
immediately starts to search below the split point in exactly
the same way of the others split point's slaves. This reduces
to zero the time waiting in idle loop and should increase
scalability especially whit many (8 or more) cores.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
