From 680654b254dc2c6357199825c9399998d6bfd777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomasz Sobczyk <tomasz.sobczyk1997@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:58:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add dots to output every epoch for progress visualization.

---
 src/nnue/evaluate_nnue_learner.cpp | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue_learner.cpp b/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue_learner.cpp
index 2a1fd6cb..a97b45c7 100644
--- a/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue_learner.cpp
+++ b/src/nnue/evaluate_nnue_learner.cpp
@@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ namespace Eval::NNUE {
                 << " , batch_size = " << batch_size
                 << " , grad_norm = " << gradient_norm
                 << std::endl;
+        } else {
+            // Display some progress but don't synchronize as
+            // we can't really decide when to release the output lock here
+            std::cout << '.';
         }
 
         send_messages({{"quantize_parameters"}});