Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:18:40 12/14/02
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On December 14, 2002 at 13:40:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 13, 2002 at 23:16:25, Mike S. wrote: > >>(...) >>So far, I didn't find the old one on the reorganised FTP. - It was a good >>resource for people who have a slow internet connection (modem dial-up). I >>recommended sometimes to newcomers, to download that and generate the 4-piece >>tbs. on their local machines, so that they didn't have to make long expensive >>download sessions. >the problem is that the generator is going to take far more machine than what >you have. > >First, if you want to do a P table, you have to have _all_ the promotion cases. >IE get ready >to have a terabyte of space (probably 2-3x this to generate) when you tackle >KPPKPP. You >have to stop and think a bit to appreciate what you are going to need. Just the >memory to >handle the generation is non-trivial, not counting the disk space because tables >are not built >in compressed form. Yes; I didn't even try to generate 5-piece tables (I'm using a few which a have from various CDs). But I meant only the * 3- and 4-piece tbs.* , i.e. for newcomers which have none. The complete 3/4-piece set is ~30 MB which is too big to download for some, so I often recommended the generator. Once I tried it and generated the 3- and 4-piece files in about 4 hours on P3/700 IIRC. Very useful. Thanks anyway, Mike Scheidl
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