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Subject: Re: Nalimov TB caching ?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 05:47:52 08/06/99

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On August 06, 1999 at 06:28:55, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:

>I am wondering how (and if) to use the TB caching offered by Eugene's
>interface.
>I assume that almost all chess programs use one or more
>transposition hash tables, this way caching the results of table base
>probes anyway. Isn't it redundant to use the caching of the TB module
>(FTbSetCacheSize() call) too ?
>
>If not, what values for the cache size can be suggested ?
>
>Thanks in advance, Uli


It's pretty important, unless you run a system like Linux that really does well
caching on its own.  However, Eugene's LRU cache is very efficient and  can
speed things up significantly.

In the case of Crafty, I generally do this:

hash = 3/4 of all memory.
pawn hash = 1/2 of what is left, up to 16mb.
cache = whatever is left, leaving enough room to prevent paging.



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