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Subject: Re: Neverending story with incomplete tablebases

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:58:50 08/19/03

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On August 19, 2003 at 05:20:18, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 18, 2003 at 17:35:10, Sune Fischer wrote:
>
>>On August 18, 2003 at 17:31:53, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>
>>>On August 18, 2003 at 17:28:19, Sune Fischer wrote:
>>>
>>>>Right, hope that is true. I don't expect to be locking a lot though.
>>>
>>>You're not going to use transposition tables?
>>
>>Isn't Bob using some kind of lockless scheme?
>>I thought I heard about that from somewhere.
>
>Yes, Tim Mann's trick. It comes with some restrictions, IIRC your
>hash entires must be formatted in a certain way.

Not particularly.  It just makes decoding the signature dependent on the
_rest_ of the hash entry...


>
>I'd try to get simple hash locking working first, but I
>guess that's a matter of preference. Have fun anyway :)
>
>--
>GCP



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