Performance and testing improvements #6
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Changes
Board
performance tests.Board
andPosition
.Board
using bitboards, see performance improvements below.Performance Improvements
The
Bitboard
implementation has resulted in a ~280x improvement† in computation time when simulating a full game (85 ply) played with aBoard
object, including initialization, at the cost of a ~40% increase in memory usage.Results Comparison
Based on
testBoardPerformance()
performance test before and afterBitboard
implementation.Xcode Output
† Tested on M1 Pro 8-core CPU (2021 14" Macbook Pro)