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Subject: Re: Implementing EGTB's in a program

Author: Heiner Marxen

Date: 11:15:23 10/07/01

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On October 07, 2001 at 13:44:53, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On October 07, 2001 at 09:33:29, José Carlos wrote:
>
>>  Just received permission from Eugine Nalimov to implement EGTB's in my
>>program, but he's too busy now to explain me how to do it. Is there an
>>explanation on how to do it, easy to understand and step by step?.
>
>GCP already answered. But I can add another question. When I looked last at
>probe.txt, it only explained the "old" interface functions. I could not find any
>documentation to the newer functions starting with "L_", like L_TbtProbeTable().
>Does anybody know, where those are documented?
>
>Regards,
>Dieter

From my copy of "probe.txt", dated 20-Jan-2000 (from Bob's ftp site):

>L_TbtProbeTable (int iTb, color side, INDEX index) - probe TB and return
>either result or 'L_bev_broken' if some error happened. If specified TB was
>loaded to memory, function will return result immediately. Otherwise it will
>try to find needed value in TB cache; in the worst case it have to read chunk
>of a file from disk.

and also:

>Currently the only thread-safe function in the code is L_TbtProbeTable().

Cheers,
Heiner



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