Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:25:34 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 15:09:37, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>On December 04, 2000 at 14:58:17, Andrew Dados wrote:
>
>>On December 04, 2000 at 14:53:02, Bo Persson wrote:
>>
>>>On December 04, 2000 at 14:43:06, Andrew Dados wrote:
>>>[...]
>>>>Dear Ernst.
>>>>
>>>>First I find your post (and many past ones) of very little merit, just 'flagrant
>>>>commercial exhortations' at best. Second you can't ask everyone to read your
>>>>book to understand what you mean if you can't write it clearly in few lines. And
>>>>finally I fail to see what part of Vincents post was utter nonsense.
>>>>
>>>>-Andrew-
>>>
>>>Hey!
>>>
>>>The book is also his thesis. Maybe it is difficult to give a half page summary
>>>of several year's work!
>>
>>Maybe... But giving same answer for each problem ('Go buy my book!') suggests
>>something else to me.
>>-Andrew-
>
>Let's not try to imagine what happens when he would have had a
>commercial program.
So you have a commercial program? If so, how it happened that you included other
person's code without prior contacting him? Please note that under USA law
"source code available" doesn't mean "public domain". There is still a
copyright.
>Note that i used about 184mb RAM in 3 different caches with EGTB
>information stored.
> - 150mb transpositionhashtable ==> i store EGTB there too in a special way
So it is not exclusively EGTB cache, right?
> - 2x2mb egtb cache
> - 2x15 mb wasted for just the egtb indices as i'm dual processor.
Trash. There is only one set of EGTB cache and indices, regardless of number of
CPUs, at least in the code I wrote.
Eugene
>Note i probe also in the qsearch which most people don't do. I initially
>didn't do it either but then started drawing some games on the internet
>because i didn't do it.
>
>But for sure i don't want to waste another 16mb RAM from the expensive
>RAM i have now for another EGTB cache.
>
>Instead more likely is that i convert the EGTB to my own format after
>which users who usually don't have an additional 15mb for egtb indices
>to let them do without.
>
>>>
>>>I have read the book and found it very interesting, full of new information and
>>>a very good buy.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>BoPersson
>>>bop@malmo.mail.telia.com
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