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Subject: Re: H8 perfomance and hash table size

Author: Kevin Strickland

Date: 12:58:31 05/19/02

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On May 19, 2002 at 13:11:03, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>After looking at many factors insde my pc that could be hampering a decent speed
>and finding nothing because all was OK, I decided to test the program itself
>messing around with some of its parameters. Soon I found hash table size do have
>some effect.
>Specifically, my pc have 256 Mb in Ram and first I had setted the h8 engine to
>make use of 96 of them. Now, suspecting that at least that was an unnecesary
>high amount for a slow engine,  did sucesive hiarcsmark-benching with 32, 24 and
>16, several test for each.
>Results:
>Hiarsc 8 becomes faster with 32 Mb Ram. At least in my system. From around 23-25
>Kn with 96 it went to 27-28 with 32. Not the big thing, but a difference.
>I also did changes to other parameters in the advanced options, but thy did not
>affect the speed.
>Nevertheless I am still unsatisfied. I suppose hat with my AMD k-6 500 Mhz
>Hiarcs should run at around 40 Kn. I have checked processor perfomance, memory,
>etc with "Fresh diagnosis" and all is OK. I wonder if some of you cold give me
>some extra hints.
>Fernando


I tried benching Hiarcs 8 on my PIII 550 that I use on ICC under the account
Somnus. I get roughly 56knps on that box. On my Athlon 1800+ machine I get
significantly higher.

Switching the hash tables for me do not really do much.



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