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Subject: Re: Gambit 2 and hash tables

Author: Feivel Avrum

Date: 09:03:54 04/30/01

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On April 29, 2001 at 13:31:51, Christophe Theron wrote:

>This behaviour is absolutely normal.
>
>What you need to know is that the decrease in NPS coming from bigger hash tables
>is widely offset by the decrease in the size of the tree.
>
>As a result, the NPS goes down, but the playing strength still goes up.
>
>If you try with 24Kb (not Mb) of HT, you will see an even better NPS, but of
>course the program will be MUCH weaker.

Christophe,

I understand your answer but I wonder why on a machine with 256 Meg RAM a hash
of 24 Meg seems to be the "turn around" point. Is this "point" common to most
programs or is it just coincidental?

Feivel

• Re: Gambit 2 and hash tables Christophe Theron 10:45:29 04/30/01
  • Re: Gambit 2 and hash tables Feivel Avrum 11:37:54 04/30/01
    • Re: Gambit 2 and hash tables Christophe Theron 16:44:34 04/30/01

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