Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano
Date: 11:04:17 11/18/00
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On November 18, 2000 at 13:46:04, Hermano Ecuadoriano wrote: >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. Ah, HAH. Then go and see the post, below, "Fritz6 and Winboard engines" that says, according to Mogens Larsen, that the author of Gandalf has "worked around" the problem. Very good. He could work around the problem because he was aware of it. *** Before Crafty became a "Native" CB engine, it also had its hashtables cleared. And here is why Dr. Hyatt could not work around it: If memory serves me, (I could be mistaken but I don't think so), Dr. Hyatt DID NOT KNOW about the problem. According to him, (about two years ago if I remember right), HE WAS NOT TOLD. Nor was I. *** Now you see that the tournament posted in "Gandalf wins again" has "issues" that ARE relevant. See, two? years later, it is still relevant. > >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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