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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:28:16 03/31/03

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On March 31, 2003 at 15:45:38, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>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

Perhaps.  I would use the internal LRU cache built into EGTB, rather than an
external
disc cache program myself...  It is probably better.




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