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Subject: Re: setting hashtables for Fritz8, Shredder8 & Hiarcs9 in inf. analysis

Author: William Penn

Date: 01:07:34 05/01/04

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On April 30, 2004 at 14:09:47, margolies,marc wrote:

>you have answered my question.
>the maxtor harddrive which you use has an average access tme of 9.6...this slow
>down the engine calculations while it waits for look-ups.
>therefore it is not a software problem. instead it is a hardware performance
>problem.
>

Yes it could be so. I don't know. I just note that probably 90%+ of home
computers have drives of this speed, or slower. The older standard was 5400rpm,
which a lot of computers still use.
WP



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