Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:23:32 01/31/02
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On January 31, 2002 at 05:51:55, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >On January 31, 2002 at 02:58:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >>On January 30, 2002 at 21:45:45, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >>[snip] >>>>Maybe 6-men files then. >>> >>>It takes a ferocious amount of time and resources to generate 6-man. This "idea" >>>multiplies" the amount of time required to create them. I too have come up with >>>several ideas to increase their compressability, but they too suffer from the >>>same problem of requiring an unreasonable amount of time to carry out for the >>>bigger databases. >>> >>>There are probably zillions of ideas that do the same. The problem is finding >>>the ones that speed things up rather than slow things down. Those are the ones >>>that are hard to come by. >>> >>>Nalimov is no dummy. He too can think of such ideas. He's the expert and we're >>>the amateurs. The other diffence between us and him is he has made his ideas >>>work. Not so easy for us, unfortunately :-( >> >>No, I'm not talking about the incredibly bright innovation of building them. >>Rather, like some seemy parasite, I would open one of the files that Eugene >>built and create the reduced file using that. > >Okay, maybe. What you need to do is to do the KRK EGTBs and get a rough handle >on how much time it might take to do the rest. I think the normal EGTBs are >computationally very cheap compared to what you propose, but that's just me >talking off the top of my head. A real test is what is needed." If KRK compares >okay in terms of speed and memory use, then you will be in business, but don't >be surprised if there is a speed bump ahead of you. I would not be surprised at all. As they say, "The devil is in the details." It may turn out to be completely infeasible. Or there could be any of a large number of potential show-stoppers. But I think that the idea has merit.
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