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Subject: Re: HashTable size question

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:12:06 02/04/05

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On February 04, 2005 at 19:31:03, joseph soney wrote:

>On February 04, 2005 at 19:25:45, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 04, 2005 at 18:55:10, joseph soney wrote:
>>
>>>what about for a 3min game and 15min game?
>>
>>Depends on:
>>Speed of your CPU
>dual 2.4gig opterons
>>Speed of your memory
>1.5gig pc3200
>>Size and speed of your 1st level cache
>1mb L2
>>Size and speed of your 2nd level cache
>1mb L2
>>Whether or not your program clears cache between plies
>shredder or crafty
>>The aging policy chosen for the hash table
>>Other factors...
>this is what i got tell me what you think.

I think you will have to test it to know what is best.

Crude Rule of thumb:
For lightning games, 16 meg is fine.
For blitz games, 32 meg is fine.
For slow games, as much hash as you can use without swapping (e.g. 1/2 of all
available physical [not virtual] memory)

YMMV

>>In short, test and see which does better.



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