Re: [computer-go] Digital Mars

2009-04-23 Thread Adrian Grajdeanu
I have two benchmarks: On an: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz stepping 06 g++ --version g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) I had to modify SConstruct to refer to the default g++, not g++.4.2 and had to remove -march=native = Benchmarking, please wait ... = 20

Re: [computer-go] Digital Mars

2009-04-21 Thread Adrian Grajdeanu
Just to add my 2c for the performance freaks. I've noticed that code generated by g++ 4.3.x was about 40-45% faster non-optimized when compared to previous versions of g++ (native linux platform). When optimizing code (-O3), 4.3 generated code that was 20% faster. This is probably the more

Re: [computer-go] Bobby Fischer

2008-09-11 Thread Adrian Grajdeanu
I read that story in a book, just after Bobby Fisher's death. Don't remember all details, save that he was astonished he got beaten. Adrian Don Dailey wrote: Does anyone remember an anecdote about Bobby Fischer learning to play go? I don't remember the details but I'm trying to find a

Re: [computer-go] now: operating systems and love

2008-04-09 Thread Adrian Grajdeanu
Linux is a time sinkhole to someone not familiar with it.You are probably almost unaware of the huge investment in time you spent learning windows because the lessons happened gradually over many years and you don't give it a second thought. You just know it and forgot that you had to

Re: [computer-go] 19x19 MC improvement

2008-01-26 Thread Adrian Grajdeanu
By the way, does anybody know of any nifty tools or heuristics for efficient probabilistic multi-parameter optimization? In other words, like multi-dimensional optimization, except instead of your function returning a deterministic value, it returns the result of a Bernoulli trial, and the

Re: [computer-go] Drunken sailor on payday

2007-11-21 Thread Adrian Grajdeanu
Nick, do you know for a fact that a C++ complier will optimize for the base case of a virtual function? I was under the impression that it doesn't know (as in can't determine at compile time) whether the function was overwritten or not so it doesn't favor any of the cases. In fact I can't even