Passed STC
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6a2682ce351b79f679cc47c5
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 57248 W: 14730 L: 14399 D: 28119
Ptnml(0-2): 145, 6159, 15698, 6464, 158
Reordering operations in `do_move` allows us to effectively prefetch the TT entry earlier, since the piece moving helpers don't actually modify the position key. I suspect that with threat inputs, `put_piece` and friends got a lot more expensive, and so this helps us a lot.
vondele's machine:
==== master ====
1 Nodes/second : 294311526
2 Nodes/second : 297068312
3 Nodes/second : 297418763
Average (over 3): 296266200
==== pfearly ====
1 Nodes/second : 303986449
2 Nodes/second : 304221719
3 Nodes/second : 305302969
Average (over 3): 304503712 (+2.78%)
Locally, `bench`:
Result of 200 runs
speedup = +0.0158
P(speedup > 0) = 1.0000
As expected it helps even more in a large-hash, NUMA setting.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6891
No functional change
Instead of checking whether a threat index is valid and then writing to
a vector if it isn't, we can instead always write to the buffer of the
vector, and only increase the size of the vector if the index is valid.
This saves some branch mispredictions.
passed STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/69ceb1689f7a7e3fdfc9a44b
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 205760 W: 53109 L: 52561 D: 100090
Ptnml(0-2): 603, 22552, 56076, 22992, 657
local speedtest shows
```
Result of 100 runs (cycles)
===========================
base (...ockfish.orig) = 296886 +/- 1645
test (...kfish.df0822) = 298862 +/- 1662
speedup % = +0.67 +/- 0.19
[95% CI; t-statistic]
p(speedup > 0) = 1.0000
p(speedup > .5%) = 0.9562
CPU: 16 x Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra 9 185H
Hyperthreading: on
```
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6703
No functional change
[Passed STC](https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/live_elo/691fc321acb6dbdf23d07e4b):
```
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 215360 W: 55651 L: 55108 D: 104601
Ptnml(0-2): 520, 22399, 61290, 22960, 511
```
This PR is on top of ces42's work so I'll rebase if that PR changes.
Essentially, it comprises my adjustments to `make_index` that remained
unmerged before threat inputs was finalized.
The unsigned intermediate variables let us skip a bunch of useless sign
extensions (because Square and Piece inherit from `int8_t`, and C/C++
semantics require narrow integers to be promoted to `int` before doing
arithmetic on them). Additionally, by removing the special usage of
`offsets[][64]` and `[65]` the indexing becomes more efficient. (This
usage was a temporary hack from sscg anyway, so I think he'll like that
it's gone.) Finally, the `sf_assume` condition was fixed so that it
actually makes a difference to the compiler.
The speedup is fairly nice locally (combining both ces42's and these changes):
```
Result of 100 runs
==================
base (...kfish.master) = 1691982 +/- 1907
test (./stockfish ) = 1714349 +/- 1789
diff = +22367 +/- 2465
speedup = +0.0132
P(speedup > 0) = 1.0000
```
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/6445
No functional change
when we need to update an accumulator by two moves and the second move
captures the piece moved in the first move, we can skip computing the
middle accumulator and cancel a feature add with a feature remove to
save work.
Passed STC
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/67f70b1c31d7cf8afdc45f51
LLR: 2.93 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 72800 W: 18878 L: 18529 D: 35393
Ptnml(0-2): 160, 7711, 20374, 7930, 225
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5988
No functional change
