Hand potential evaluator in autoit.....

[vikingcoder]

Hi !

Since I am developing a poker bot in autoit I thought it would be a nice idea to develop most of it in autoit. So I came to the part where I had to do a hand potential evaluator. I use the same algorithm as in

the article "Opponent modeling in Poker", Billings. But when I try it afterwards it is extremly slow, and yes I do realise that I probably should use C or something. And with slow I mean it takes more than an hour to calculate everything.

I do realize that it is about 5 million comparasions you have to do, but it seems like it should go much faster anyways. So I wonder if any1 else has actually done a hand potential evaluator in AutoIt and what kind of performenace you have with it, =)

[James]

Are you using a loop?

[vikingcoder]

yes, basically it is 3-4 loops nested, that is how the algorithm works.

[Rydextillxixdiex]

Sounds like it might be a computer usage issue. Try adding

ProcessSetPriority(@AutoItPID,4)

to allow the script to hog more computer memory.

[monoceres]

Sounds like it might be a computer usage issue. Try adding

ProcessSetPriority(@AutoItPID,4)

to allow the script to hog more computer memory.

Correction, to give the script more CPU time.

[Rydextillxixdiex]

Correction, to give the script more CPU time.

Well, i knew it did something of this nature to allow it to utilize the CPU better.

[nobbe]

5 million comparasions

since it is all interpreted code it wont get MUCH faster on 5 mio comparisons

the only thing i could think of - it "might" work to use a hashing algorithm to fill up a hash table to avoid using direct comparisons

- apparently someone has done this

http://senzee.blogspot.com/2006/06/some-perfect-hash.html

or use external c-compiled programs such as those

http://spaz.ca/poker/

Edited June 25, 2008 by nobbe