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Subject: Re: Best hardware/OS selection to play Shredder 4?

Author: Bruce Ramsey

Date: 09:50:07 03/09/00

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On March 09, 2000 at 07:27:45, Dan Andersson wrote:

>Hash table access is random (as good as), thus RDRAM is a bad choice for a chess
>program.

Could you please point us to some references that document why RDRAM would be a
bad choice for chess programs.  In my readings your assertion is the first
indication of that possibility.  Everything else seems to point to RDRAM (with
an 820/840 chipset) being faster all around.

thanks, Bruce



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