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Subject: Re: To NON-believers in EGTB benefits... (some engines benefit greatly..

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 00:13:52 11/21/05

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On November 21, 2005 at 02:51:03, A. Steen wrote:

>"Instantly" is interesting.
>
>S(KRK, Nalimov EMD) =! 7Kb, which resides in RAM cache easily.  But we are
>talking about the general question of EGTB use, where tablebase sizes make RAM
>cache-residence a dream many years from reality (and even then, pre-load time
>will be an issue).  So for real life use, HDD latency and seek times are an
>issue, and periods of even 10ms have to be considered.
>
>For a 4GHz CPU, even 5ms = 20,000,000 CPU cycles.  With hyperthreading and
>family, that is an awful lot of processing time for one tablebase lookup.
>
>So, "instantly" is usually wrong.

Anyone of average intellect can discern what he was talking about and would know
not to take it literally. This is a blatant troll, no doubts about that.



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