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Subject: Re: Tablebase Space Indexing Improvement?

Author: martin fierz

Date: 12:33:28 01/31/04

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On January 30, 2004 at 20:16:13, Ed Trice wrote:

>
>>
>>i guess you saw schaeffers paper on their 10pc db? they say they are using
>>something much better for compression now; it's probably similar to datacomp...
>>
>>cheers
>>  amrtin
>
>Hello Amrtin,
>
>Did you change your name recently?  :)

hehe, dont type late at night :-)


>Yes, Gil and I were giving Jonahtan some of our code using my massively parallel
>indexing scheme and Gil's intelligent RLE compression. I am not sure if Ed
>Gilbert showed you the paper I wrote on how to make the 10-piece database while
>keeping as many as 24 machine busy for a good portion of the time.

i don't remember seeing it. in any case, schaeffer is not using RLE any more,
but huffman coding instead, which is what gave ed G the idea...

cheers
  martin



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