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Subject: Re: Questions about Junior and hash tables

Author: Moritz Berger

Date: 12:57:25 08/25/98

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On August 25, 1998 at 11:48:50, blass uri wrote:

>I want to know after how much time the hash tables of Junior are full
>(Fritz5 gives me this information).
>
>I see that if I give Junior big hash tables it needs time to begin to think so
>too big hash tables are counter productive and I want to know what
>is the optimal hash tables per time.
>
>I found that at least in Junior4.6(I did not check it in Junior5)
>if I give Junior 100Mbytes hash tables it may be slower than 20Mbytes
>and not only because of the first time it needs to clear the hash tables.
>It looks at less positions to go to the same depth but need more time to look at
>them.
>
>This fact make me think that  maybe too big hash tables for Junior are counter
>productive also in long time control.
>can it be counter productive because of the computer?
>
>Is it possible that in pentium200MMX small hash tables are better and in a newer
>computer big hash tables are better?
>
>Uri

Junior 4.6 took about 5 minutes to load with e.g. 128 MB hash tables under
Windows NT. Junior 5 (32 bit) doesn't have this strange problem, so I guess your
observation doesn't apply to J5.

Clearing e.g. 100MB hash tables takes a fraction of a second on a fast machine.

Junior does about 80%-90% as many NPS as Fritz 5 (rough estimate), so as a rule
of thumb it ought to fill up hash tables almost as fast as Fritz does.

Moritz



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