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Subject: Re: Qsearch

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 09:05:31 04/06/01

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On April 05, 2001 at 08:56:14, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On April 05, 2001 at 06:54:30, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>But have anybody tried a seperate Qsearch hashtable? The very fact that the
>>Qsearch generates so many notes, and so much time is spent there, seems to
>>dictate that the dynamic programming principle of a trans/ref table would be
>>very beneficial here too.
>
>Sjeng uses a seperate Qsearch hashtable.
>
>It's a gain everytime I test it. Even with SEE, because even though
>the hits are lower, the time saved is greater.
>
>--
>GCP

I thought about this; however, I haven't tried yet.
The question is whether the memory allocated for
a separate Qsearch hash table could be used more efficiently for the normal
table. In other words, what's better? 16 MB hashtables or 12 MB ht + 4 MB
Qsearch hashtables? (or any combination).
The good thing about qsearch tables is that I bet that It will have a high
hitting ration between iterations (some qsearch lines should be exactly the
same) and it would be more beneficial at faster time controls when
the qsearch takes a lot of time. However, I wonder if at longer time
controls become less useful.

Regards,
Miguel




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