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Simplify Passed Pawns (#2058)
authorprotonspring <mike@whiteley.org>
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:37:38 +0000 (10:37 -0600)
committerMarco Costalba <mcostalba@users.noreply.github.com>
Sun, 24 Mar 2019 16:37:38 +0000 (17:37 +0100)
commitea5505821dabb70eb01cc25f7b4489b0fdc17d2b
treed40e8ab3c7308a933a3649888fef667f92eae5e9
parentd320de761951687fa55716da1bd786df4c2cb14b
Simplify Passed Pawns (#2058)

This is a non-functional simplification/speedup.

The truth-table for popcount(support) >= popcount(lever) - 1 is:
------------------lever
------------------0-------1---------2
support--0------X-------X---------0
-----------1------X-------X---------X
-----------2------X-------X---------X

Thus, it is functionally equivalent to just do: support || !more_than_one(lever) which removes the expensive popcounts and the -1.

Result of 20 runs:
base (...h_master.exe) = 1451680 +/- 8202
test (./stockfish ) = 1454781 +/- 8604
diff = +3101 +/- 931

STC
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) [-3.00,1.00]
Total: 35424 W: 7768 L: 7674 D: 19982
Http://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/5c970f170ebc5925cfff5e28

No functional change.
src/pawns.cpp