[computer-go] Library of Effective GO routines v 0.106

[Łukasz Lew]

On 2/21/07, Brian Slesinsky <brian at slesinsky.org> wrote:
> [resending; apologies if you get this twice.]
>
> Hi,

Hi Brian,

>
> This is my first post to the list, so I'll introduce myself:   I'm a
> software developer and just getting started with playing Go.  I read
> the article in the Economist and thought that the work on Monte-Carlo
> based Go programs sounds promising.  I'm not interested in writing my
> own Go program but would like to experiment with improving existing
> programs.

Have fun ;)

>
> I built and started libego on an iMac with a 2GHz Intel Core Duo.  The
> initial benchmark reports these results:
>
> Performance:
>   100000 playouts
>   1.84255 seconds
>   54.2727 kpps
> Black wins = 43983
> White wins = 56017
> P(black win) = 0.43983
>
> Are these numbers to be expected?

They are correct, except rather low performance.
It should be rather about 80 kpps (kilo playouts per second)

There are few possible reasons for this:
 - You are using a laptop with power management
  - You changed Makefile or some source files to make it compile on Mac?

Best Regards,
Łukasz Lew

>
> - Brian
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