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Subject: Re: cache settings--Cacheman for chess programs

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 12:45:38 03/31/03

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On March 31, 2003 at 15:36:54, Robert Hyatt wrote:


>The answer is _zero_.  You do _not_ want to use virtual memory for a chess
>program.
>Not if you want a reasonable NPS value anyway...
>
>Software caches will have no effect on engine speed, except to slow it down,
>which
>is counter-productive.

Alex was speaking about hard disk caching of the OS. This can have an influence
in situations with many TB hits.

Regards,
Dieter



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