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Subject: Re: CA 6.0 addittional patch for using Tablebases with Tiger14

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 10:58:54 04/03/01

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On April 03, 2001 at 08:32:40, Victor Zakharov wrote:

>I don't know the reason. But solution time is not stable. When I tried Shredder5
>once more it found the solution in 12 minutes.
>
>The same was with Tiger. But difference between two Tiger tests was not so
>large.


The reason can be that the first test has loaded the relevant parts of the
tablebases into your disk cache.

When you run the test the second time, almost no disk access has to be done, and
the problem can be solved dramatically faster.



    Christophe



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