Author: Slater Wold
Date: 08:27:26 12/06/01
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On December 05, 2001 at 18:22:24, Pham Minh Tri wrote: >On December 05, 2001 at 09:52:15, Slater Wold wrote: > >>On December 05, 2001 at 08:28:38, Jonas Cohonas wrote: >> >>>When an engine hash the option to clear hash, how will it affect it's play in >>>eng eng matches? >>>How does it work basically? >>> >>>Regards >>>Jonas >> >>It's kind of a rule, you never want to clear hash in a game. > >I think, after a series of games (without reloading engine), clear hash may help >to reduce the chance of hash collisions. It is specially true if the engine does >not use 64 bit hashkey or store some special values. I agree. But I don't know of a single engine that has a command to clear the hash after x amount of games. > >> >>And another rule is, you want to clear hash when, say, you're looking at a test >>suite. >> >>DJ7 has it pretty much for convience I think.
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