2 Stockfish, a UCI chess playing engine derived from Glaurung 2.1
3 Copyright (C) 2004-2008 Tord Romstad (Glaurung author)
4 Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Tord Romstad
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25 TranspositionTable TT; // Our global transposition table
27 TranspositionTable::TranspositionTable() {
29 size = generation = 0;
33 TranspositionTable::~TranspositionTable() {
39 /// TranspositionTable::set_size() sets the size of the transposition table,
40 /// measured in megabytes.
42 void TranspositionTable::set_size(size_t mbSize) {
44 size_t newSize = 1024;
46 // Transposition table consists of clusters and each cluster consists
47 // of ClusterSize number of TTEntries. Each non-empty entry contains
48 // information of exactly one position and newSize is the number of
49 // clusters we are going to allocate.
50 while (2ULL * newSize * sizeof(TTCluster) <= (mbSize << 20))
58 entries = new (std::nothrow) TTCluster[size];
61 std::cerr << "Failed to allocate " << mbSize
62 << "MB for transposition table." << std::endl;
69 /// TranspositionTable::clear() overwrites the entire transposition table
70 /// with zeroes. It is called whenever the table is resized, or when the
71 /// user asks the program to clear the table (from the UCI interface).
73 void TranspositionTable::clear() {
75 memset(entries, 0, size * sizeof(TTCluster));
79 /// TranspositionTable::store() writes a new entry containing position key and
80 /// valuable information of current position. The lowest order bits of position
81 /// key are used to decide on which cluster the position will be placed.
82 /// When a new entry is written and there are no empty entries available in cluster,
83 /// it replaces the least valuable of entries. A TTEntry t1 is considered to be
84 /// more valuable than a TTEntry t2 if t1 is from the current search and t2 is from
85 /// a previous search, or if the depth of t1 is bigger than the depth of t2.
87 void TranspositionTable::store(const Key posKey, Value v, Bound t, Depth d, Move m, Value statV, Value kingD) {
90 TTEntry *tte, *replace;
91 uint32_t posKey32 = posKey >> 32; // Use the high 32 bits as key inside the cluster
93 tte = replace = first_entry(posKey);
95 for (int i = 0; i < ClusterSize; i++, tte++)
97 if (!tte->key() || tte->key() == posKey32) // Empty or overwrite old
99 // Preserve any existing ttMove
103 tte->save(posKey32, v, t, d, m, generation, statV, kingD);
107 // Implement replace strategy
108 c1 = (replace->generation() == generation ? 2 : 0);
109 c2 = (tte->generation() == generation || tte->type() == BOUND_EXACT ? -2 : 0);
110 c3 = (tte->depth() < replace->depth() ? 1 : 0);
112 if (c1 + c2 + c3 > 0)
115 replace->save(posKey32, v, t, d, m, generation, statV, kingD);
119 /// TranspositionTable::probe() looks up the current position in the
120 /// transposition table. Returns a pointer to the TTEntry or NULL if
121 /// position is not found.
123 TTEntry* TranspositionTable::probe(const Key posKey) const {
125 uint32_t posKey32 = posKey >> 32;
126 TTEntry* tte = first_entry(posKey);
128 for (int i = 0; i < ClusterSize; i++, tte++)
129 if (tte->key() == posKey32)
136 /// TranspositionTable::new_search() is called at the beginning of every new
137 /// search. It increments the "generation" variable, which is used to
138 /// distinguish transposition table entries from previous searches from
139 /// entries from the current search.
141 void TranspositionTable::new_search() {