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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