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Subject: Re: Fritz5 and memory

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 07:37:12 06/01/98

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On June 01, 1998 at 10:20:48, Dan Homan wrote:

>On June 01, 1998 at 09:21:05, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>On May 31, 1998 at 10:17:51, Moritz Berger wrote:
>>>
>>>Fritz gets 23% on the 35 positions in the LCT II testsuite from a
>>>roughly 4-fold hash table increase from 12MB to 98MB (on P233MMX
>>>hardware).
>>
>>Good example for the validity of the generally accepted 7% rule per
>>doubling of transposition table size which I mentioned earlier ...
>>
>>Going from 12MB to 98MB is not a 4-fold but an *8-fold* increase
>>in size which is equivalent to 3x doubling. The 7% rule then predicts
>>a roughly 3x 7% = 21% better performance. Very close to your observed
>>23% for "Fritz5", isnt' it?
>>
>>=Ernst=
>
>Actually, the 7% per doubling leads to (1.07)^3 = 1.225 or a 22.5%
>increase
>which is even closer to the 23% observed :)
>
> - Dan

Dan,

I intentionally wrote "... predicts a *roughly* 3x 7% = 21% better
performance." because I assumed not everybody reading this thread
easily understands the correct (1.07)^D for D times doubling.

=Ernst=



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