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Subject: Relevance of Hastable-clearing scandal...

Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano

Date: 10:46:04 11/18/00

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On November 18, 2000 at 12:57:24, Uri Blass wrote:

>On November 18, 2000 at 12:12:05, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote:

snip
>>d. Did you hear? Did EVERYBODY hear? There are now several GUI's in which
>>one can play engine-engine matches WITHOUT that old OUTRAGEOUS
>>HASHTABLE-CLEARING after every move.
snip
> I'm not a tester. I'm just enjoying
>>proclaiming this LOUDLY. (There were some hot threads about this a year
>>or two ago. I've been away...)
>
>What is your enjoyment from proclaiming loudly things that are not relevant
>today.
>
>Uri

See the above new thread "Gandalf wins again".
If this person used a hashtable-clearing interface, he and everyone
reading his post should know that the results are not meaningful.
If he used zero increment, the results are useless.

The guest engine gets its hashtable cleared?, gets the entire PGN to
reread?, then must rebuild its hashtable? and do some unknown amount of
other re-initialization? before it can begin calculating. (I inserted
the question marks because I am not an expert.)

It is still relevant.
FURTHERMORE (large font), those programmers who have done it RIGHT deserve
credit for this RIGHT NOW (extra large flashing font), because their programs
are new releases.



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