Author: Marc Bourzutschky
Date: 04:44:13 05/02/04
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On May 02, 2004 at 05:12:07, GeoffW wrote: >Hi Bob > >Thanks for the clarification > >> >>I think the 5's take 20+ gigs uncompressed. Not _that_ big... >> > >That's pretty big for my old PC, might just be able to do it if I clean off a >bunch of stuff. > >> >>>Incidentally this Tbgen program makes a wonderful torture tester for your hard >>>drive, hope my disk even survives till I get to the pawn tables !! >>> >> >>You might be low on memory which will make it page a bunch, also... >> > >Yes I only have 512 Megs, for the 5 man with Pawns it really needs 1Gig to do >efficiently. Needing 20Gig HD and 1Gig RAM, kinda reminds you how far home PC's >have come in the last 10 years! > >You must have some pretty serious kit to be chugging through the 6 piece tables. > > Regards Geoff It sounds like you have an old version of Tbgen. With the newer versions you need less than 100 Mb to do 5-man tables efficiently, the generator can work with compressed files, and is almost 3 times faster. -Marc
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