Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:09:35 12/07/01
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On December 07, 2001 at 23:49:14, James T. Walker wrote: >Hello Bob, > >I quote from above: >"Good hardware today can easily go 3-4M nodes per second. Say 4 to make it >round. that means 1M seconds or 2 years. Safe for today probably. But >the problem returns in a few years." > >1 million seconds is about 11.57 days not 2 years. ( 1 day = 86400 seconds) >Jim OK.. the suggestion was dividing nodes by 1K to produce Knodes, which would be stores in an unsigned int. That gives 4,000,000,000 Knodes, or 4,000,000,000,000 nodes total. at 1M nodes per second, that comes to 4,000,000 seconds. I get 46 days to search that many nodes at 1M, 11 days to search it at 4M. My 2 years was obviously wrong. I think I left out one divide by 60 in haste...
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