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Subject: Re: GES 117 available n/t

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 09:03:22 09/05/04

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On September 04, 2004 at 21:20:59, David B Weller wrote:

>Hi Stuart,
>
>I am getting just a shade over 240 also. [1sec/pos on 1.1gz AMD ATHLON XP]
>
>-David

I've expeirmented with 1/2 second per position and it does save time in
testing with a surprisingly not-too-distant result. If you don't clear
your hash table after every search, that can save time, since a memory
clear on a large block of memory takes a significant fraction of a second
on these boxes. Your hashing algorithm needs to be be okay with that though.
Mine is single tier replace if length.candidate >= depth.stored. And that
is okay with not clearing hash table between moves.

My hash table for all my testing is only 500,000 entries or so. Quite small.
When I try to increase it much, WINDOZE bolixes up and starts thrashing to
disk. I am running Windows ME and really need to chuck this box but am
waiting (and waiting) for a decent 64-bit box with a decent full 64-bit
Windows.

Stuart



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