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Subject: Re: kpk.nbw.emd

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 11:35:06 06/12/02

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On June 12, 2002 at 11:33:19, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On June 12, 2002 at 10:59:16, Bas Hamstra wrote:
>
>>Currently I use Nalimov tablebases in uncompressed format. Now I have seen you
>>can compress into emd format. Is it possible to use them directly in that
>>format? If so, how?
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Bas.
>
>
>The code Eugene supplies (on my ftp site) does this.  In fact, it is one of
>two major innovations Eugene produced (on-the-fly decompression that is very
>efficient along with the very efficient indexing scheme that reduces the file
>sizes significantly prior to compression)...
>
>His code will recognize compressed or uncompressed tables and use either.

Bob, 2 questions. How bad is the perfomance loss compared to uncompressed? And
can the 4 man tables be loaded in RAM in compressed form?

Thanks,
Bas.

• Re: kpk.nbw.emd Robert Hyatt 08:09:09 06/13/02
  • Re: kpk.nbw.emd Bas Hamstra 12:10:38 06/13/02
    • Re: kpk.nbw.emd Robert Hyatt 13:39:24 06/13/02
• Re: kpk.nbw.emd Rafael Andrist 11:42:35 06/12/02
  • Re: kpk.nbw.emd Bas Hamstra 13:46:21 06/12/02

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