Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 12:33:51 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 15:25:34, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>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?
What is 'he' referring to in the above sentence?
>>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?
of course not. also transpositiontable but with some obvious
additions to let it perform better for egtb.
>> - 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.
I'm multiprocessor, please explain me how!
I only saw some multiTHREADING code.
There is a small but existing difference between the 2.
>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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