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Subject: Re: hash, clearing hash, and percent of hash question

Author: Sven Reichard

Date: 06:48:53 12/10/01

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On December 09, 2001 at 19:26:12, K. Burcham wrote:

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>512 megs ram.
>hash set at 256.
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>some programs give percent of hash used during a game.
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>using the above values, here is an example.
>the percent of hash used starts at 0%.
>as the program thinks the percent of hash value increases.
>so as the percent of hash gets to 90%, is this 90% of 256 megs?
>if this is 90% of 256 megs, and this 256 megs of ram is full of
>data analyzied by the program, then what happens to all this information
>after a move.
>these percent of hash readouts are going back to 0% after each move.
>my understanding is that none of the modern programs clear hash after
>any move, so what does this 0 value indicate. 0% of what?
>
>kburcham

I would interpret it as the percentage of nodes found in the ttable during the
search. I.e., for the last 1M nodes, 900,000 where found in the hash table, and
hence we had at least a best move from the last iteration to start our search
with. Of course, this is just a guess, and without any description this
print-out is about as useless as an nps-number, except for comparing platforms.

Sven.



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