Finally great speed-up to Stockfish?

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Finally great speed-up to Stockfish?

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https://nextchessmove.com/dev-builds

HQ attacks for AVX2:

Result of 100 runs
base (./stockfish.master ) = 1136025 +/- 2816
test (./stockfish.patch2 ) = 1171370 +/- 2848
diff = +35346 +/- 3275

speedup = +0.0311
P(speedup > 0) = 1.0000
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Re: Finally great speed-up to Stockfish?

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Speed pretty much meaningless, by your own posts Jouni, if doubling CPU time is now almost immeasurable, I think those were Mark Young's tests in ProDeo? It is not even pretty much, but totally unmeasurable by Elo because of noise. New Stockfish; Issues with race conditions still remaining if that is what Vondele is writing about (in the issues), and the Tablebase Mating issues probably. To just name two issues. But a lot of comments to a new net that (the comments) are absolutely incomprehensible these days. Complete alchemy :) If they hired some AI to write an advert that sounds impressive but nobody understands, they could not have done a better job. Would not be surprised if they actually did let an AI write it. Anyway, sounds good and certainly a gainer at fast timecontrols, that new net just two hours ago. I just saw it five minutes ago, I did not actually try to read any of the comments in question so please ignore my complaints totally...
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Re: Finally great speed-up to Stockfish?

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Patch gave free +4 elo in NCM and framework test.
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