Author: bob o
Date: 11:15:37 03/19/02
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On March 19, 2002 at 13:45:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >When the compression software was being developed, Robert did tests >with several different blocksizes to determine which was the most efficient >one. It turned out to be 8192 bytes. If you use a different size, your >tablebases will be unusable by most programs. > >The problem of using larger blocksizes is that the whole block has to >be read in and decompressed in order to find a single position. For large >sizes, this will slow down the search too much. Prof. Hyatt: would it be possible to compress the files as much as possible and then provide a small utility (probably a batch file) to decompress and recompress with e=8192? I would be willing to write the batch file for this, although it looks to be a 2- or 3-line file. I figure if this is done, then you could save space on your ftp site, several gigs by my estimate. Thanks! Bob
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