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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