7 Card Hand Evaluators

[pygmyhipo]

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I will comment it tonight and see if I can post it tomorrow
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BTW. I have been a lurker on this board for almost 2 years, but this thread is the best I have seen... Keep it goin'!


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I totally agree about this thread. It's exciting to see this kind of progress. I'm one of the old pokersource / poker-eval maintainers and I didn't imagine that such gains were possible. In fact, I was coming around to the opinion that the Age of Lookup Tables had passed, thanks to the increasing gap between the time for one instruction and the latency of a cache miss. I thought the next generation of poker-eval would drop all memory accesses and just concentrate on a fast, totally cached instruction stream.

Anyway, if any of you feel like sharing code, I'd be happy to add it to the pokersource library. Although all the current code is GPL, you would be free to apply a different license like Apache or whatever to your contributions.

As for Ray's C version, if you post that I volunteer to port it to Java. It would be nice to have a superfast java evaluator that people could use without the hassles that come with JNI in the current pokersource code.

By the way, the pokersource discussion group is at:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/pokersource/

-pyg