[computer-go] Efficiently selecting a point to play in a random playout

[Jason House]

On 6/5/07, Peter Drake <drake at lclark.edu> wrote:
>
> On a multithreaded program like Orego (running on a multicore machine), it
> moves the nontrivial random number generation out of the synchronized part
> of the program and into the threads.
>

I'm surprised to hear this.  Do you have a single random number generator?
In housebot, Each thread has its own random number generator instance.
Besides avoiding a bottleneck as each thread generates random numbers, it
also opens the door for repeatable behavior in a single worker thread.
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