Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 08:45:07 04/05/01
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On April 05, 2001 at 02:17:25, Jouni Uski wrote: >I use normally 16MB tablebase cache definition in Fritz6 interface. I have got >impression, that with 3+4+some5 piece tables it's good value. Yesterday I >changed size to 0 (=no cache) and compared some endposition with a lot TB >access. To my surprise Fritz now solved all positions faster than with previous >value! What's this meaning? Does this mean, that Windows98 does the catching >better than Fritz GUI? May be it's unnecessary to define any cache for Fritz. > >Jouni Using less memory for the tablebase cache leaves more memory for the disk cache and indeed, that seems to speed the tablebase access more than a large tablebase cache. Maybe that is because in the disk cache the data is still compressed, while in the tablebase cache the data is uncompressed? I'm not sure but this can be a plausible explanation. Ernst.
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