Author: pavel
Date: 09:41:04 04/03/05
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On April 03, 2005 at 11:31:56, pavel wrote: >I have used all the CM versions since 6000. But my favourite one was CM9000. >What do you guys think? >There is something about CM10 I just don't like. I can't seem to understand what >is it. It's probably the new look. Also the Database import (from PGN) function >of CM9000 was much much (almost 10times) faster than CM10. >I was trying to import a 1 million PGN games database into CM10 format. After >leaving it working on it for more than 20 hours on a P4 2.66 it was barely 50% >done. On comparison CM9 is crunching on the database, like it's on steroid. > >I never really fiddled with CM database features. I am looking for a Database >that's extremely fast while doing positional search, at the same time the >database is not too bloated. Scid is OK is this regard. It's kinda slow in a >position search. And I hate the fact that it loads the whole database in the >memory every time you open it; try opening a 4million game database in SCID when >you have 750mb memory. PosBase is amazingingly fast but the database format is >hugely bloated, even more than PGN format. And there seems to be a serious bug >in the program. > >CM9 is the winner so far in terms of features that I am looking for. It also >seems to avoid importing games that's already in the database. I am not sure if >it's true. If it is the case. It would be an awesome feature. > >pavs Does CM9 have a limitation of importing games from PGN files? It stopped at 300,000.
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