Re: [gnugo-devel] always init_board()

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Arend wrote:
> > > Here is a 3% speedup pretty much for free.

> > interesting. i tried this some weeks ago and surprisingly got a slowdown
> > by around 0.3 - 0.5%. i hadn't a clue of the reason, so i just buried the
> > changes. maybe it was because of windows (i used it then)?

> No idea. I can just say that my results were very reproducable (i.e. I
> got a consistent difference of around 3%, and the individual runs varied
> only by around 0.1%).
>
> Did you use reading.tst for measuring? According to a mail from Inge I
> once found in the archives, GNU Go spends most time playing through the
> .sgf-files for that test suite (and for this the old code is faster).

yes, i used reading.tst but i remember trying owl.tst afterwards. actually, 
it doesn't matter much if your patch gives a speedup. i was just curious.

Paul