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Subject: Re: CM versions.

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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