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Subject: Re: How to test hashtable implementation?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:11:00 07/21/01

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On July 21, 2001 at 06:07:56, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>On July 20, 2001 at 19:25:00, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>Amazing what 1MB of memory can do, eh?
>
>Far less is sufficient here. I remember very well, that the old DOS comet on a
>386 confined to a total max of 640 K memory (without DOS extender) solved this
>already in a few seconds in iteration 18. I think that the search tree is very
>small, accounting for transpositions.
>
>For positions of this kind (only kings and mainly blocked pawns), a hash table
>of size 64 K will already help a lot.
>
>Uli

I also tried CM with its minimum of 512K for the hash table, and the results
were identical to 1MB. With the CM GUI, it's nothing or at least 512K.

jm



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