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Subject: Re: Formula for hash table size

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 06:55:57 08/28/03

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On August 28, 2003 at 06:20:17, Peter Fendrich wrote:

>On August 28, 2003 at 05:13:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>
>>On August 28, 2003 at 05:10:10, Peter Fendrich wrote:
>>
>>>IIRC Chessbase/Fritz published a formula for minimum required hash table size >in order to get optimal performance.
>>
>>The formula only applied to Fritz 5.32, and it's total junk for newer
>>Fritzes.
>>
>>>Does anyone know where I can find it and/or other similar formulas for other
>>>engines?
>>
>>I know that for ChessTiger and Deep Sjeng its as much as possible,
>>as long as you dont start swapping to disk.
>>
>>--
>>GCP
>
>That wasn't the answer I looked for!
>I said minimum required not maximum.

For most engines, there is no minimum, or it's very low like for example
1 Megabyte.

The optimal value is the maximum.

Values inbetween work, but they will give suboptimal performance. The
difference may be very small though, especially at blitz.

--
GCP



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