Author: Harald Faber
Date: 00:47:38 03/08/00
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On March 07, 2000 at 13:06:38, John Merlino wrote:
>On March 07, 2000 at 04:22:43, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>Hi John,
>>
>>Is there a way to increase the hash size in CM7000? It is said that FreeMem and
>>other software show no difference in memory access, no matter if the ttable_size
>>in the .ini's are set to 20, 25 or other values.
>
>Harald,
>
>I am very sorry to report that the development team has looked into this and it
>appears to be a bug. They have no explanation for it, as the code that
>initializes the engine SUPPOSEDLY did not change during the rewrite from CM6000
>to CM7000 (since the engine itself did not change). However, what you report
>appears to be true.
>
>Unfortunately, because CM7000 has been officially put to bed, there will almost
>certainly not be a patch. Officially, since there isn't a way using the GUI to
>change the hash table size, then this ability is considered one of those
>"unsupported features". Therefore it doesn't warrant the time to create, test
>and put up a patch.
This is indeed sad news.
>Also, considering the recent layoffs here at Mattel Interactive (the new boss in
>town), no one is willing to stick their heads above their respective trenches.
>
>The development team tells me, however, that in the next version there WILL be a
>way in the GUI to change the hash table to be anything you want, from 8K to
>64MB.
>
>jm
May I ask some questions and demands? :-)
1) Any release date (approx.) for CM8k?
2) Will there be a new King-engine in it?
3) Me and many others would like to see more analysis features:
a) n-variation like in the cb family and Shredder
b) include/exclude certain moves from analysis like in Rebel
c) analyse database completely or only selected games, also with PGN/EPD or
if only PGN then please also FEN-lines
d) analysis monitor = background analysis, e.g. in player-player-mode is a
wish since ages...of course refers to a) and b)
4) auto232- or better LAN-support for autoplaying games against other
programs/machines
5) 64MB hash...well...nowadays there might be wishes for limit of 128MB but
considering the engine speed/nodes per second, 64MB might be enough.
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