On Aug 11, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Petr Baudis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> That said, root parallelization overperforming sequential simulations
> is something I never managed to reproduce and that seems rather
> surprising to me. It might have something to do with the way priors
> are done in the tree or some other engine-specific factors.

When I saw that result, I immediately concluded that the engine locked into 
specific lines of play prematurely. I can imagine a few exceptional cases, but 
I don't think root parallelism should ever outperform a single thread doing the 
equivalent number of simulations.
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