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[Daniel Shawul]

Do you use aligned malloc for your hash tables (main,pawn and eval) to put the starting address at 64 byte boundaries. Even though I had a bucket with 4 slots each 16 byte in size, I forgot to actually do _aligned_malloc() !? weird. But after I make the change it actually got slower nps wise on windows. On linux systems profiling shows there is some gain for the main tt but not for the eval cache (16 bytes entries). I don't use buckets for the eval cache so I guess there is not much to gain from there...
Also does pre-fetching gain anything or is it another optimization myths ?
Why I am asking this is these things are crucial for gpu computation even though I never bothered to implement them for scorpio.
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