Reduce scope of variables

[stockfish] / src / tt.cpp

diff --git a/src/tt.cpp b/src/tt.cpp
index 354ead87adb34dac0a007dcf064067fe9362b9d8..04cd7357c336af960f6b8ae8ee26bec2db79cd79 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tt.cpp
+++ b/src/tt.cpp
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
   Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
   Copyright (C) 2008-2015 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
-  Copyright (C) 2015-2017 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad
+  Copyright (C) 2015-2018 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad
 
   Stockfish is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -20,9 +20,12 @@
 
 #include <cstring>   // For std::memset
 #include <iostream>
+#include <thread>
 
 #include "bitboard.h"
+#include "misc.h"
 #include "tt.h"
+#include "uci.h"
 
 TranspositionTable TT; // Our global transposition table
 
@@ -33,12 +36,7 @@ TranspositionTable TT; // Our global transposition table
 
 void TranspositionTable::resize(size_t mbSize) {
 
-  size_t newClusterCount = mbSize * 1024 * 1024 / sizeof(Cluster);
-
-  if (newClusterCount == clusterCount)
-      return;
-
-  clusterCount = newClusterCount;
+  clusterCount = mbSize * 1024 * 1024 / sizeof(Cluster);
 
   free(mem);
   mem = malloc(clusterCount * sizeof(Cluster) + CacheLineSize - 1);
@@ -55,15 +53,34 @@ void TranspositionTable::resize(size_t mbSize) {
 }
 
 
-/// TranspositionTable::clear() overwrites the entire transposition table
-/// with zeros. It is called whenever the table is resized, or when the
-/// user asks the program to clear the table (from the UCI interface).
+/// TranspositionTable::clear() initializes the entire transposition table to zero,
+//  in a multi-threaded way.
 
 void TranspositionTable::clear() {
 
-  std::memset(table, 0, clusterCount * sizeof(Cluster));
-}
+  std::vector<std::thread> threads;
+
+  for (size_t idx = 0; idx < Options["Threads"]; idx++)
+  {
+      threads.push_back(std::thread([this, idx]() {
 
+          // Thread binding gives faster search on systems with a first-touch policy
+          if (Options["Threads"] >= 8)
+              WinProcGroup::bindThisThread(idx);
+
+          // Each thread will zero its part of the hash table
+          const size_t stride = clusterCount / Options["Threads"],
+                       start  = stride * idx,
+                       len    = idx != Options["Threads"] - 1 ?
+                                stride : clusterCount - start;
+
+          std::memset(&table[start], 0, len * sizeof(Cluster));
+      }));
+  }
+
+  for (std::thread& th: threads)
+      th.join();
+}
 
 /// TranspositionTable::probe() looks up the current position in the transposition
 /// table. It returns true and a pointer to the TTEntry if the position is found.