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I wonder whether using `const` over `static` was intentional here. The first gets instantiated at each use site while the latter exists (approximately) once in

• claytonwramsey 3y ago
  It is! I tried using `static` as a test, and benchmarked the engines against each other. The final result was that a `const` lookup table yielded +19 Elo over dynamic magic generation, while a `static` one yielded only +10 in a tournament between all three. Elo is non-linear and dependent on the set of competitors, so that's why it has no relation to the +6.6 from the end of my post. My suspicion is that moving to `static` removes the ability to optimize against the magic table when the query is known at compile time, since I often use magic lookups from fixed squares and occupancies in places other than move generation. I also found that it yielded no change in compile time or binary size, so it was basically all disadvantages to use `static`.