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Subject: Re: EGTB generation

Author: Owen Lyne

Date: 03:01:49 09/20/99

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On September 17, 1999 at 12:47:03, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>On a 256Mb machine you must be able to generate all 5-man pawnless TBs. Maybe
>you'll be able to generate TBs with pawns, but here I have some doubts - it
>looks that paging will slow it down too much. In any case you can try, and if
>one iteration will took less than (say) two hours you'll be able to do that.

Glad to hear I can do 5 man pawnless OK, and when I have I'll report whether
those with pawns can get an iteration done in a few hours.

>I beleive that you can use compressed TBs during generation; just don't use
>memory-mapping files (-p), use TB caching (-c <cache amount>). Of course it'll
>be slightly slower, but not much.

Excellent!

>Theoretically it's possible to modify the generator so it'll produce compressed
>TBs, but I hate to do that. You can try if you wish :-)

I'll pass on that one... If I can generate with all subtables compressed I'll
have plenty discspace to generate a single uncompressed table, so that's fine.

Thanks again,
Owen



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