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Subject: Re: EGTB Initialization

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:17:45 01/31/02

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On January 31, 2002 at 07:59:11, David Rasmussen wrote:

>How long does it take on your computer to initialize EGTB's? I am not talking
>about any stuff that you might do yourself. I am talking about the call to
>Eugene's IInitializeTb() function. On my portable with a slow 4500 RPM disk that
>is probably heavily fragmented fragmented, it takes 25 seconds(!) with 3-4-5
>piece TB's. This machine is a 1133 MHz Mobile P-III. How long does it take on a
>"normal" modern machine with a 7200 RPM disk on a non-fragmented disk?
>
>/David
  On my sony laptop running linux, it takes 9 seconds with all 3-4-5 piece
files present.  On my quad xeon with 10K scsi drives, it takes less than one
second from typing "crafty" until it is ready to play, including initializing
the EGTBs and everything else.



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