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| author | Scott Gasch <[email protected]> | 2026-09-05 21:52:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Scott Gasch <[email protected]> | 2026-09-05 21:52:40 -0700 |
| commit | 9e995e7c39a83ae9b5ba86f3346e0281744bf773 (patch) | |
| tree | 27b4587287b0259fba2811084aba1f60c9e1e6bb /src/bitboard.c | |
| parent | 53694883d63674a97a3960514dd4e0a4e1b67f01 (diff) | |
King-safety recalibration, lazy-eval material floor, eval hot-path trimming
Recalibrate iKingSwingP90 against the bitboard-rewritten
CountKingSafetyDefects (~1.28B samples via new CALIBRATE_POSITIONAL/
CALIBRATE_BASE_MARGIN/CALIBRATE_MARGIN_SAFETY diagnostic build flags,
board_representation/EVAL.md section 9). Add LAZY_EVAL_MIN_MATERIAL:
measured the regular lazy exit's real swing exceeding its own assumed
margin 20.6% of the time in near-bare-king endgames (vs <=0.36%
elsewhere) -- skip lazy eval entirely below that material floor.
Double the stale search.c/searchsup.c CountKingSafetyDefects extension
thresholds as a stopgap pending their own recalibration.
Eval hot-path trimming (measured via EVAL_TIME, ~1759 -> ~1386 avg
cycles/eval on a representative middlegame position):
- Pull _GetFileStormDefects out of EstimatePositionalScore's hot path
(cost more than the "cheap cached lookup" it was assumed to be,
running on ~90% of all Eval() calls).
- Add pos->bbOccupiedSide[2], incrementally maintained alongside
bbOccupied, so _BuildFriendlySideBB is a field read instead of a
6-term OR.
- Switch CoorFromBitBoardRank8ToRank1/Rank1ToRank8 to the existing
static-inline FastFirstBit/FastLastBit (same bsf/bsr instruction,
no call/ret overhead).
- Defer EvalPasserRaces' uRacerDist/fDontCountMeOut past its
no-passer early return.
- Remove the mailbox-era "max mobility in a row" term from
_EvalBishop/_EvalRook (no bitboard-mobility equivalent need for it).
- Simplify _EvalBishopPairs and rook file-openness/passer bonuses to
flat DNA-tunable constants instead of distance/pawn-count-scaled
tables, rook file-openness now a branchless bitboard-indexed lookup.
- Remove pos->cPiece (write-only, no reader anywhere).
- Collapse WHITE/BLACK mirror-branches (castle-rights block,
rook-trapped-in-corner) to color-indexed constants.
- Close the PAWN_BIT..KING_BIT gap (bits 7-3 -> bits 4-0), removing
the bvPattern >>= 3 before its KING_COUNTER_BY_ATTACK_PATTERN
lookup. This also fixes a real bug introduced earlier this session
when _WhoControlsSquareFast was converted to read these constants
directly: g_SwapTable is only [32][32], but the old bit values
(up to 0xF8) indexed far out of bounds on any attacked square --
data.c's InitializeSwapTable was always built assuming the bits
0-4 range this change now actually produces.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XxmVi2sTMwpPp4i6WYFjan
Diffstat (limited to 'src/bitboard.c')
| -rwxr-xr-x | src/bitboard.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/bitboard.c b/src/bitboard.c index ad45ea6..2832fdb 100755 --- a/src/bitboard.c +++ b/src/bitboard.c @@ -344,7 +344,11 @@ Return value: **/ { COOR c = ILLEGAL_COOR; - ULONG uFirstBit = FirstBit(*pbb); + // FastFirstBit (chess.h): same bsf instruction as the extern + // FirstBit, but static inline -- no call/ret/arg-marshal overhead. + // Measured directly: ~7 cycles/call via the extern vs ~1-3 for the + // bare instruction (board_representation/EVAL.md section 9). + ULONG uFirstBit = FastFirstBit(*pbb); ASSERT(uFirstBit == SlowFirstBit(*pbb)); if (0 != uFirstBit) @@ -381,7 +385,9 @@ Return value: **/ { COOR c; - ULONG uLastBit = LastBit(*pbb); + // FastLastBit (chess.h): same bsr instruction as the extern + // LastBit, but static inline -- no call/ret/arg-marshal overhead. + ULONG uLastBit = FastLastBit(*pbb); ASSERT(SlowLastBit(*pbb) == uLastBit); c = ILLEGAL_COOR; |
