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Subject: Re: Fritz5 and memory

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 03:16:57 05/29/98

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On May 29, 1998 at 04:42:06, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:

>On May 28, 1998 at 20:01:08, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:
>>
>>On a PII/300
>>                100MB        50MB          25MB
>>BS2830-14       208''        224''         301''
>>BT2630-09       404''        406''         435''
>>
>>
>>On a P200MMX
>>                100MB        40MB          22MB
>>BT2630-09       524''        560''
>>Fritzmark       174          156           154
>>
>>Chessbase claim that by increasing hashtables from 40 MB to 100 MB on a
>>P200MMX, Fritz 5 is 50 Elo points stronger. It doesn't make sense to me
>>that doubling RAM has the same effect as doubling the processor speed.
>>After the times above, maybe going from 25 to 100 MB hash Friz 5 can
>>become some 20 points stronger.
>
>The long-standing rule of thumb in the computer-chess literature
>states that each doubling of hash-table size gives you about
>7% better performance (see e.g. Hsu's Ph.D. thesis).

Hashtables are designed very differntly in different programs. For
instance, Rebel 9 goes slower with 60 MB tables than with 28 MB and
Fritz 5 would go faster with this same change in size. I wonder in which
cases such an equation can apply.

Enrique

>=Ernst=



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