Re: [gnugo-devel] cache, semeai, and owl threats

[Joseph Piche]

Gunnar,

As for my skills, I am an amateur Go player (20 to 15 Kyu), and can
find my way around C. I also write in java, php, perl, (x)html, and
javascript, but that probably wouldn't be useful here.

After looking over the message you referred to, and looking more at
the code, I think I should start with simply familiarizing myself on
how gnugo works exactly. But I did see a few amount of FIXMEs in the
code, so I might try to see what I can do with those once I understand
what's going on.

-Joe


On 7/10/07, Gunnar Farnebäck <address@hidden> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > I started looking over gnugo code for the first time recently, and had
> > a few questions. First, why is the cache not set higher than 8MB by
> > default?
>
> It uses a replacement scheme for collisions which is quite effective.
> Increasing the cache size has almost no effect on performance.
>
> > Second, why are the semeai and owl threats modules not
> > compiled in by default.
>
> Owl threats are disabled by default because the code is not very good;
> it mostly spends time without adding strength. A well-written owl threat
> detection would be valuable though. I'm not sure what you mean with
> semeai here. The semeai module is always used but there's no code at all
> to detect semeai threats.
>
> > Third, I know that Texinfo is the official
> > documentation format for GNU, but I believe XHTML would also be nice.
>
> I can't say I see anything particularly attractive in XHTML but in any
> case we follow GNU policy here.
>
> > Also, I would like to help out with the gnugo project, but I am not an
> > expert with C, and am a little confused about where to start.
>
> This is starting to become an FAQ, so I think I refer to
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnugo-devel/2007-05/msg00016.html
>
> What skills do you have that could be useful?
>
> /Gunnar
>
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