Thanks to the work of @revoof, lichess local analysis is now up to 40 times faster than it was yesterday!
We now use a special chrome/chromium technology called "NaCl", which allows much faster code execution, and supports multi-threading.
Here's the expected performance gains. If your computer has:
- 1 or 2 threads (old processors like Pentium): 5 times faster!
- 4 threads (Intel i3, Intel i5): 10 times faster!
- 8 threads (Intel i7): 20 times faster!
- 16 threads (high-end): 40 times faster!
Note that:
- lichess will detect your computer performance and allow local evaluation up to 25 plies, against 18 before.
- by default, lichess only uses half your computer processors, as to not stress it too much during analysis. But you will be allowed to configure it soon, and double the performances again by using all your processors!
- only Chrome, Chromium, and Opera browsers support this optimization. Firefox and other browsers performances are unchanged.
As far as we know, this is a lichess exclusivity. Enjoy!
We now use a special chrome/chromium technology called "NaCl", which allows much faster code execution, and supports multi-threading.
Here's the expected performance gains. If your computer has:
- 1 or 2 threads (old processors like Pentium): 5 times faster!
- 4 threads (Intel i3, Intel i5): 10 times faster!
- 8 threads (Intel i7): 20 times faster!
- 16 threads (high-end): 40 times faster!
Note that:
- lichess will detect your computer performance and allow local evaluation up to 25 plies, against 18 before.
- by default, lichess only uses half your computer processors, as to not stress it too much during analysis. But you will be allowed to configure it soon, and double the performances again by using all your processors!
- only Chrome, Chromium, and Opera browsers support this optimization. Firefox and other browsers performances are unchanged.
As far as we know, this is a lichess exclusivity. Enjoy!