Shielding Success Rates Mystery

Ok, still want to test on Ubuntu 64-bit and with the Oracle JVM on Linux, but here's a bunch of data for now.

config	Virus	Hydra	Crusader	Total
Linux/OJDK/1 thread	76.14 +- 8.29	95.93 +- 0.37	89.26 +- 5.17	87.11 +- 2.66
Linux/OJDK/4 threads	81.45 +- 7.6	82.77 +- 6.51	90.91 +- 5.14	85.04 +- 2.92
Windows/1 thread	98.89 +- 0.25	96.09 +- 0.33	98.67 +- 0.34	97.88 +- 0.17
Windows/2 threads	97.18 +- 1.91	96.31 +- 0.35	98.92 +- 0.3	97.47 +- 0.48
Windows/3 threads	95.4 +- 3.19	96.39 +- 0.23	88.88 +- 5.49	93.56 +- 1.55
Windows/4 threads	98.66 +- 0.31	92.2 +- 3.5	92.42 +- 4.31	94.43 +- 1.41

It's worth noting that I feel comfortable running my own benchmarks 6-threaded on this machine and I usually run 4 RoboRumble clients at a time.

Thank you, Voidious, for all the data. Don't forget to take a peak at skipped turns under Linux/OJDK. It gets printed to the game log, and you can also check what is printed in the SkippedTurns text file it writes to the data directory.

For now, I'm going with the assumption that I need to target reducing initialization overhead due to skipped turns. Once I have that done, I can prepare another version of XanderCat, which if I'm lucky you will be willing to run through your Linux/OJDK setup again to see how it changes things.