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Subject: Re: From 64 to 128 RAM

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 12:34:19 03/04/00

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On March 04, 2000 at 14:28:31, Gustavo Pereira wrote:

>On March 04, 2000 at 14:25:11, Anatoli wrote:
>
>>Dear chess friends !
>>
>>I run Celeron 366 with 64 RAM. I use only ChessBase products. If I add another
>>64 RAM memory , will it be any visible improvment in performance of Fritz-6 or
>>Junior-6 ? Simply saying, will they play stronger or changes are very small and
>>there is no point to invest another $100 to it ?
>>Sorry if somebody has already asked the same question before.
>>Best wishes
>>Anatoli
>
>It definitely will, because hash tables will more than the double of time to
>fill up, which means your program will work more efficiently. Expect some 30-40
>elo points up...

I would be very surprised if the improvement is this much.

After a certain hash table size (~1 megabyte?) you get diminishing returns.
Fritz and Junior will definitely not go twice as fast with twice the memory.

-Tom



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