Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 03:48:27 03/09/00
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On March 09, 2000 at 06:17:20, Harald Faber wrote: >>3c) I'm not exactly sure what you're asking for here. Please explain >>3d) Yes (finally!) > > >I gave up hoping for this, now it really happens! :-) this is a reason good enough to upgrade! [...] >>5) Actually, Johan has stated that The King can handle hash table sizes up to >>640MB(!), but development team rightly feels that that is overkill. Even Johan >>has said that, in most circumstances, anything more than 16MB is unnecessary. > > >OK, when Johan says so...even MCP8 fills 61MB easily on tournament mode on >K6-200 and the King is not much slower. >So >>the GUI will allow the user to set values up to 64MB (perhaps 128MB). Remember >>that the TYPICAL Chessmaster user could get himself into serious trouble by >>cranking the value all the way up on his mimimum spec machine. > > >Would it be hard for the programmers to get the physical free RAM and set the >hash automatically to the first value below that size? Why not having the interface limited to a small number, 32 or 64MB, and value admittet via ini file arbirary? [Undocumented option] regards Franz
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