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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