Author: Bertil Eklund
Date: 12:36:42 06/17/99
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On June 17, 1999 at 05:42:04, John R. Menke, Sr. wrote: >Folks--Bertil is correct! CM6000 comes with the default setting of TTABLE=20 in >cm.ini which is 1MB hash. Set TTABLE=21 for 2MB hash. Set TTABLE=22 for 4MB >hash. Set TTABLE=23 for 8MB hash. Set TTABLE=24 for 16MB hash. You could also >try setting TTABLE=25 for 32MB hash if you have 64MB RAM or more. Or at the >other end of the spectrum if you have very little RAM, TTABLE=19 would give >0.5MB hash, etc. I have done some tests with my old slowpoke i486 66MHz with >32MB RAM, and for me 8MB hash seems about right. Rough rule of thumb: Use about >1/4th of your RAM for hash. It is also a function of your time setting. There >is a slight improvement if you can use a bigger hash table with long time >controls. But there's really not much difference, maybe at most a 10%-20% >improvement in speed of calculation! The value of hash tables seems overblown, >certainly for CM6000. For best results, buy the fastest processor you can >afford... JRM Hallo! We use 16mb hash for our testing. Mr de Koning told us that 16mb is "more then enough". This for P200MMX and 2h/40 moves. Note that if you use to big hahtables it makes the program slower. For Junior5 I use 102,4mb on AMD450 K6-2. I first tried with 114mb but it seemed to be slightly to much. Regards Bertil SSDF
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