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authorScott Gasch <[email protected]>2026-08-26 00:15:17 -0700
committerScott Gasch <[email protected]>2026-08-26 00:15:17 -0700
commite08387ae3e9049b22aa0e56ccfa934c997fa1f87 (patch)
tree5700c3208523f422dbc2e87927ddbd1659dd6e1c /src/._GNUmakefile
parent2245550e3c0344bcba093b24dc00f36b462fc940 (diff)
Disable qsearch danger-detection (SideCanStandPat) as an experiment
Profiling (pmcstat, sampled) showed SideCanStandPat as the single hottest leaf function in the engine, ahead of Eval itself -- not from expensive logic (it's a 3-line signature/lock/lookup), but from sheer call volume (~95% of the tree is qsearch) combined with a likely-cold 16MB global hash table probe and an uncontended-but-nonzero lock/unlock pair paid on every call even single-threaded. Disabling it entirely: real bench nps was flat (~1.53M vs ~1.57M, within noise -- the earlier "1.2M->1.75M" bench reading was itself an uncontrolled, noisy single comparison on this shared box, not a real effect). But ECM (sn 4M) came back at 655/879, the best result of the whole session (vs 650 baseline) -- suggests the danger-detection heuristic may have been net-negative for search quality on balance, forcing exhaustive no-stand-pat search in some positions where standing pat was actually fine. Speed claim didn't hold up; the tactical-quality result is a genuine, unexpected positive worth investigating further. Not yet validated in self-play -- pending a clean match run. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
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