Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:07:27 01/04/01
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On January 04, 2001 at 08:04:07, Tord Romstad wrote:
>On January 03, 2001 at 12:26:00, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On January 03, 2001 at 07:48:12, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>
>>>I apologise for the misunderstanding, I was reading too fast. However, I
>>>still think you are a little bit too optimistic. Mephisto Berlin did use
>>>transposition tables. If I understand correctly, transposition tables are
>>>difficult or impossible to implement in PalmOS.
>>>
>>>
>>>Tord
>>
>>Hash tables slow the program down a little bit under PalmOS (about 5%), but
>>there is no problem to implement them.
>
>OK. I should probably stop talking about things I have no first-hand
>knowledge about. I thought I had read somewhere that a PalmOS program
>could only allocate a relatively small amount of memory.
>
>Tord
You can allocate as much as you want, but in small chunks (max 64Kb). For hash
table management, having to deal with a large hash table split into small chunks
is not really a problem.
Christophe
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