Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:56:56 12/16/04
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On December 16, 2004 at 18:25:42, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >On December 16, 2004 at 17:31:10, Scott Gasch wrote: > >>On December 16, 2004 at 14:46:33, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On December 16, 2004 at 03:37:46, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On December 15, 2004 at 22:24:49, Alex wrote: >>>> >>>>>Of course it would be foolish to buy a New computer now...... Micrsoft is going >>>>>to present a 64 bit OS nest year, the Christmas prices of new computers will >>>>>drop like a BRICK by Jan 1.......... But ! Let us speculate.... Hmmmmmmmmmm >>>>>What will 64 bit DO for chesss programs ....Yes yes I KNOW AMD has New processor >>>>>that does 64 bit..... but what is the difference ..reallY? D >>>> >>>>Speed. >>>> >>>>You can expect programs to get 10-60% faster from 64 bit mode. >>>> >>>>This is in addition to the Athlon64 already being so fast in 32 bit mode. >>> >>>Another potential advantage is the large address space. >>> >>>With terabytes of ram directly addressable, potentially totally new solution >>>ideas may be formulated. >>> >>>For instance, you could memory map the 3-4-5 man tablebase files and lose the >>>disk access penalty. That might make them give a large Elo boost, while the >>>disk access method for 32 bit systems seems to be about break even. >>> >>>You could have 20 GB hash tables. >>> >>>You could store (in ram) a large tree of every chess game ever played together >>>with statistical information on each node. >> >>...of course this all assumes you have a machine with 20Gb of physical memory >>and a chipset that supports that much RAM. Until the cost of memory comes way >>down, you won't see me mapping EGTB files (compressed or not) into memory. :) >> >>Scott > >I'd suggest 2 pen drive USB like this : >http://www.supermediastore.com/pendrive-4gb-flash-drive.html > >Yes, no that cheap, but all 3-4-5 egtb way faster than disk "faster than disk"? What kind of disk do you use for your egtb's? Floppy or CDRom? :) The think you gave a link to is horribly slow compared to anything except for CD/floppy drives...
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