Polyglot 1.4w Released

[F. Bluemers]

Nice idea!

But wouldn't it be more logical if global.ini was read before the user's .ini?

would be usefull too,but I wanted to have common settings in a seperate file.
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Fonzy

[F. Bluemers]

I guess that you don't want to redo all the existing users .ini files to remove the parameters that are set in the global.ini. In the current scheme you only have to touch the user .ini of broken engines that somehow cannot run with the global settings, and need to be pampered.

This is indeed what is intended.
This way one can quickly change parameters for tournaments etc.
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Fonzy

[Michel]

I guess that you don't want to redo all the existing users .ini files to remove the parameters that are set in the global.ini. In the current scheme you only have to touch the user .ini of broken engines that somehow cannot run with the global settings, and need to be pampered.

Hmmm. This is quite contrary to intuition. Usually the convention is that global settings go before local settings.

Perhaps something like "override.ini" might describe this concept more accurately.

[Michel]

Perhaps something like "override.ini" might describe this concept more accurately.

May I should point out that this effect can also be achieved with the "GUI" version of PG.

Just pass the options that have to be overridden as an initString to xboard.

I assume this can be included in winboard.ini.

[F. Bluemers]

New polyglot version.
Winboard does not use I/O polling anymore.
Timelosses/Lag with very small timecontrols has been substantial reduced

To give an idea:
using older polyglot versions running hiarcs 11.1 versus itself
100 games/90 moves in 4 seconds,
I got about 28 games with a time loss.
This has been reduced to zero now!
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Fonzy

[F. Bluemers]

New polyglot version.
Polyglot does not use I/O polling anymore.
Timelosses/Lag with very small timecontrols has been substantial reduced

To give an idea:
using older polyglot versions running hiarcs 11.1 versus itself
100 games/90 moves in 4 seconds,
I got about 28 games with a time loss.
This has been reduced to zero now!
Best
Fonzy

'typo' fixed

[Michel]

Very nice!

Regards,
Michel

[F. Bluemers]

Polyglot 1.4w15 introduced a couple of race conditions which only revealed themselves during tests on a singlecore comp.
Fixed in 1.4w16
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Fonzy

[krazyken]

Are there two different branches going on polyglot between Fonzy and Michel ? Or has one incorporated the changes from the other? The number versioning gets me a bit confused about which I would want to use.

[F. Bluemers]

Are there two different branches going on polyglot between Fonzy and Michel ? Or has one incorporated the changes from the other? The number versioning gets me a bit confused about which I would want to use.

See here for more info on michel's polyglot http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewt ... =2&t=49775

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Fonzy