Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:56:44 01/06/06
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On January 06, 2006 at 16:32:59, Peter Skinner wrote: >On January 06, 2006 at 14:22:02, Uri Blass wrote: > >>No it does not control hash and cannot control it. >> >>Movei use some ini file to decide how much hash to use and does not consult >>chessbase. >> >>It ignore hash commands. >>There are instruction to the user how to change hash but the chessbase interface >>does not know about these instruction and I changed them recently in my last >>private version. >> >>Chessbase interface can only do book learning because it can control the book >>moves that the engine does not decide about them and it also can use tablebases >>but it simply cannot do nothing about other things. >> >>Uri > >Well that is for Movei. > >For most engines that installed in the CB interface I can initiate the hash >table size in the change main engine dialogue, but the interface itself controls >it. Take Crafty for instance. If I use 128M hash, it only actually allows 108M >and 20M for tb indices. > >This is a prime example of how the interface takes control. > >Peter I don't know exactly what they do. But since I do my own memory allocation, and I am pretty certain they don't muck around with it since new versions use the shmget/shmat stuff for multiple processors, I am certain they are not allocating my hash tables...
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