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Subject: Re: Hash tables and data-cache, some programmer stuff...

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 10:36:38 01/18/98

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On January 18, 1998 at 10:56:30, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>On January 18, 1998 at 09:47:40, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>>On January 18, 1998 at 07:36:26, Peter W. Gillgasch wrote:
>>
>>>00:01:00 6122978 nodes NPS: 101710.598007
>>
>>Hi Peter,
>>
>>in terms of NPS "Chess Demon" seems to be hellishly fast indeed --
>>congratulations!
>>
>>But what happened to your tree size? The current "DarkThought" needs
>>only 3.8 million nodes to complete iteration #11 of WAC #3.
>>
>>=Ernst=
>
>Could be explained by lots of things...

Sure, I know that there are many plausible explanations. I just wanted
to hear one from Peter himself. :-)

As far as I know him, Peter is an NPS addict. Thence, it is also
possible
for "Chess Demon" to be severely hampered in one way or the other in
order
to achieve very high NPS numbers. That's why I wondered about tree size.

=Ernst=



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