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Subject: Re: crafty slow start up

Author: Brian Richardson

Date: 07:25:19 08/13/04

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On August 13, 2004 at 09:55:23, joseph soney wrote:

>Ok crafty running really strong tanlebases enabled works great. However, I
>noticed when you run crafty.exe it takes a while for crafty to find and regester
>all the endgame files, but, in winboard it seems to start up faster. I have
>notcied that the actuall game board comes up faster but crafty must still be
>checking endgame files because if you start a game right away it will not move
>for 2 to 3 min? is there anyway around this? This is big trouble when running on
>and ics with a .bat file. please help

Yes, this happens to Crafty (and Tinker too).
It depends on the speed of your disks since it takes time
to find the hundreds of files, at least the first time.

However, after the operating system has cached the file information,
starting again is much much faster.



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