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Subject: Re: Book design

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 10:31:17 11/28/02

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On November 28, 2002 at 07:27:27, Steve Maughan wrote:

>David,
>
>So I guess you're opening the book file as a random access file?
>
>Do you search for book moves before *every* search?
>

Well, yes, in principle. If I haven't been in book for a couple of moves (5
moves at the moment, I think), I don't probe the book anymore, though. With my
hardware (and the hardware I have access to), the binary search scheme works
fine on the ~100MB books I've used so far. I know it can easily be improved, but
I see no reason to do it until the need arise.

/David



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