Better document how Position c'tor works

[stockfish] / src / search.cpp

diff --git a/src/search.cpp b/src/search.cpp
index df74d580ec2b954cd346b310438a976b9819bbca..31de0b01e4979e5f5fd23adff739e000b7d4dcd3 100644 (file)
--- a/src/search.cpp
+++ b/src/search.cpp
@@ -2981,20 +2981,20 @@ namespace {
     splitPoint->mp = mp;
     splitPoint->moves = *moves;
     splitPoint->cpus = 1;
-    splitPoint->pos.copy(p);
+    splitPoint->pos.fast_copy(p);
     splitPoint->parentSstack = sstck;
     for (i = 0; i < ActiveThreads; i++)
         splitPoint->slaves[i] = 0;
 
-    // Copy the current search stack to the master thread
-    memcpy(splitPoint->sstack[master], sstck, (ply+1) * sizeof(SearchStack));
+    // Copy the tail of current search stack to the master thread
+    memcpy(splitPoint->sstack[master] + ply - 1, sstck + ply - 1, 3 * sizeof(SearchStack));
     Threads[master].splitPoint = splitPoint;
 
     // Make copies of the current position and search stack for each thread
     for (i = 0; i < ActiveThreads && splitPoint->cpus < MaxThreadsPerSplitPoint; i++)
         if (thread_is_available(i, master))
         {
-            memcpy(splitPoint->sstack[i], sstck, (ply+1) * sizeof(SearchStack));
+            memcpy(splitPoint->sstack[i] + ply - 1, sstck + ply - 1, 3 * sizeof(SearchStack));
             Threads[i].splitPoint = splitPoint;
             splitPoint->slaves[i] = 1;
             splitPoint->cpus++;