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Subject: Re: no transposition tables

Author: John Coffey

Date: 15:38:12 06/19/00

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On June 19, 2000 at 16:54:46, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On June 19, 2000 at 16:27:58, John Coffey wrote:
>
>>Let us say that I have a system with not much RAM, like the Gameboys that I
>>program.  Transposition tables are out of the question.   The Gameboy Advanced
>>(16 mhz risc processor) has 1/4 meg available as an option that can be placed on
>>an external cartridge, but I figure that is not enough to do anything.
>
>256k is a terrific size for a hash table, esp. if the processor is 16mhz.
>

Assuming that you could get 4,000 positions per second.  256K is about 16K
positions.  You would fill up the table in about 4 seconds.  Still it might
prove useful.

John Coffey



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