Author: Scott Gasch
Date: 10:40:05 01/16/03
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On January 16, 2003 at 13:31:39, David Rasmussen wrote: >I do more or less the same thing as everybody else, when probing EGTB's, judging >from the open source programs I've inspected. But I get a severe drop in NPS >when the tables are probed heavily. Much more than other programs, from what I >can see on ICC. > >What could be the course of this? >I have the same order of number of probes as other programs as I can see on ICC. >So my limiting of probes is not the problem. I only probe in the first couple of >plys and if there have just been a change of material on the board. The harddisk >I use is very fast. It is a Western Digital 80GB 7200 RPM with 8MB cache. So >that shouldn't be the problem either. I use NTFS, not FAT, I don't know if that >makes a difference, or file systems in general. I haven't done any serious >testing of this on EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS etc. But as far as I know, people are >able to do this on Windows, so I must be able to do it too. > >If you have any ideas on how to test or narrow down what's wrong, please post. > >/David What did you set your EGTB cache size to? Do you also store EGTB positions in your main transposition table as exact scores with very high draft? Scott
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