Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:45:29 04/30/01
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On April 30, 2001 at 12:03:54, Feivel Avrum wrote:
>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
It is a "turn around" point because you have taken it as reference!
Take any other point as reference, and it will look like a turn around point!
Christophe
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