Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 15:00:09 09/24/03
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On September 24, 2003 at 17:37:06, Uri Blass wrote: >>Of course it matters most when doing long analysis, not very important for blitz >>games. > >How much it matters? Every tiny bit matters. >I read claims in the past that doubling the hash only gives 6-7% speed >improvement and if you lose 1-2% from division then it may be important. Yes it is in that ball park probably. I don't think it's constant though, those 6-7% could be less in very fast bullet games and more in long over-night analysis sessions. >The only way to know is testing and from my experience 1-2% speed reduction >because of division is possible. It's crazy that they take so long. >I also know from experience that when I use big hash tables the program may be >very slow in the first minutes so I prefer not using more than half of the RAM >of the machine for hash tables for long analysis. > >I want to be able to do other things during analysis without having big >problems. Ok, so designed to conserve resourses? ;) -S. >Uri
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