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Subject: Re: Unable to use max RAM on Fritz 8?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 01:11:41 05/11/03

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On May 10, 2003 at 16:59:27, Luis Smith wrote:

>On May 10, 2003 at 15:07:55, Peter Stayne wrote:
>
>>The more RAM you give it for hash over what it needs, the slower it will
>>perform.
>>
>>Take a look at the manual page 18. 380 is way overboard. it says 4-12MB is good
>>for blitz. 100MB for 3 minute/move tournament games. if you take an average of
>>60 moves in a game, that's a 3 hour timelimit game.
>>
>>Set it for 64 if you plan on playing blitz a lot, or 128 for tournament games.
>>anything more will indeed slow it down.
>>
>>I'm not sure actually why it slows it down, anybody know exactly?
>>
>>pete
>
>The engine spends all its time searching through all the hash, when it would be
>faster to recalculate the moves.  I'm not sure thats right, but its my guess

No, that's the beauty of using a hash table instead of a list. If the data you
want is in a hash table, you know exactly where to look for it...

-Tom



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