Call both new and reference functions in parallel
and verify return values match.
Log to file any difference to allow debugging while
playing real games.
I could not find anything documented that is necessary that prepending -mbmi to -mbmi2 gives some benefit.
Instead at
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/x86-Built-in-Functions.html#x86-Built-in-Functions
The following built-in functions are available when -mbmi is used. All of them generate the machine instruction that is part of the name.
unsigned int __builtin_ia32_bextr_u32(unsigned int, unsigned int);
unsigned long long __builtin_ia32_bextr_u64 (unsigned long long, unsigned long long);
The following built-in functions are available when -mbmi2 is used. All of them generate the machine instruction that is part of the name.
unsigned int _bzhi_u32 (unsigned int, unsigned int)
unsigned int _pdep_u32 (unsigned int, unsigned int)
unsigned int _pext_u32 (unsigned int, unsigned int)
unsigned long long _bzhi_u64 (unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
unsigned long long _pdep_u64 (unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
unsigned long long _pext_u64 (unsigned long long, unsigned long long)
and at
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-02/msg00204.html
( "... The real optimization comes from being able to use pext
(parallel bit extract), which can implement several bextr expressions in
parallel.")
Apart from that we don't use all -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4.2 etc. but just -msse3 (or -msse4.2) only.
As regards to the speedup within noise level - this pull request is actually reversal of mcostalba#198 wherein prepending -mbmi to -mbmi2 was claimed to be 0.3% faster and here (removing -mbmi) gives 0.4% speed gain.
Counter intuitively, make build ARCH=x86-32 does NOT produce a 32-bit compile
when running a 64-bit OS. Nor would ARCH=x86-64 produce a 64-bit compile when
running a 32-bit OS (assuming it compiled w/o errors).
No functional change
Resolves#621
Use compiler intrinsics when possible to
avoid writing platform specific asm code.
Tested on Windows 7 with MSVC 2013 and mingw 4.8.3 (32 and 64 bit)
and on Linux Mint with g++ 4.8.4 and clang 3.4 (32 and 64 bit).
No functional change
Resolves#609
Easier for tuning psq tables:
TUNE(myParameters, PSQT::init);
Also move PSQT code in a new *.cpp file, and retire the
old and hacky psqtab.h that required to be included only
once to work correctly, this is not idiomatic for a header
file.
Give wide visibility to psq tables (previously visible only
in position.cpp), this will easy the use of psq tables outside
Position, for instance in move ordering.
Finally trivial code style fixes of the latest patches.
Original patch of Lucas Braesch.
No functional change.
Fixes reported startup error about missing libwinpthread-1.dll
when the dll is not in the path.
The current -static-xxxx flags, introduced with:
https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/commit/373503f4a9a990054b5
Only take in account standard libraries, but not thread
library.
No functional change.
Resolves#289
This change in the Makefile restores the possibility to compile
Stockfish on Mac OS X 10.9 and 10.10 after the C++11 has been merged.
To use the default (fastest) settings, compile with:
make build ARCH=x86-64-modern
To test the clang settings, compile with
make build ARCH=x86-64-modern COMP=clang
Beware that the clang settings may provide a slightly slower (6%)
executable.
Backported from master.
No functional change
Resolves#275
I went through all the individual compile options that differ between
-fprofile-generate/-fprofile-use and -fprofile-arcs/-fbranch-probabilities
and distilled the speed difference down to only turning off
-fno-peel-loops and -fno-tracer. Using this we still get the full speedup
(maybe a bit more because other optimizations stay on) and it's also much cleaner
because we can get rid of the "@rm -f ucioption.gc*" hack for all versions of gcc.
No functional change.
Resolves#237
Seems to be a performance regression for standard build.
For SF6 people compiling on Mac OSX using profile-build option
just need to make necessary adjustments manually...
No functional change
Resolves#223
Import C++11 branch from:
https://github.com/mcostalba/Stockfish/tree/c++11
The version imported is teh last one as of today:
6670e93e50
Branch is fully equivalent with master but syzygy
tablebases that are missing (but will be added with
next commit).
bench: 8080602
In some UNIX systems "rm" prompts user for confirmation.
However "rm -f" is always a guaranteed forced deletion.
Also move gcc profiling hack under the correct target
No Functional change
Resolves#168
Updating the makefile so that the clean and gcc-profile-clean targets also
remove the profiling data files in the syzygy directory.
No functional change.
Resolves#136
Adds support for Syzygy tablebases to Stockfish. See
the Readme for information on using the tablebases.
Tablebase support can be enabled/disabled at the Makefile
level as well, by setting syzygy=yes or syzygy=no.
Big/little endian are both supported.
No functional change (if Tablebases are not used).
Resolves#6
16MB for 1" searches is more comensurate with the average use case.
And 16 is the default used by stockfish bench, so it makes sense to be
consistent, if only to have the same minimum memory requirement for using
SF and compiling it with PGO.
No functional change.
Resolves#109
* /boot/common was removed from Haiku
* The equivalent path now that package management has been implemented is /boot/system/non-packaged
No functional change
Bench: 8759681
Marco Costalba