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Subject: Re: nps of pocketcrafty on compaq ipaq

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 07:11:19 07/14/01

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On July 14, 2001 at 09:32:19, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Hi James,
>
>>From what I know, cache does not make any difference on NPS, only on speed
>>through the plies.
>
>I have to disagree on this one.  The cache affects the speed at which memory can
>be addressed.  If no cache exists then memory access is slooooow.  In turn it
>takes longer to process a single node and hence the nps drops.
>
>Steve

Hello Steve,
Of course you are right.  I was thinking of the hash table memory that the
program uses not the cache used by the cpu.  Sorry.
Regards,
Jim



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