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Subject: Re: Does someone knows if Namilov is still generating 6 men pieces?

Author: Ren Wu

Date: 09:09:25 10/27/99

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On October 25, 1999 at 23:25:11, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Nothing unusual by today standards... Dual CPU 500Mhz computer. The only "hard"
>requirement is >=1Gb RAM. And of course dosk space to save uncompressed TB after
>it's generated.
>
>Time to generate one TB depend on a lot of factors: TB size (KxyKzz is 4 times
>larger than KxxKxx; 8 times, if it's 16-bit table), percentage of draws (the
>higher is it, the more work had to be done on each iteration), # of iterations
>(now it's equal max DTM+1). So, all KxxKxx were generated in 1-2 days. Average
>KxxKyz needs a week or so (my estimate). "Record" TB (KRNKNN, KRBKNN) will need
>~2 weeks. And of course now I am trying to generate "record" TBs.
>
>Currently generator will run only if compiled by 32-bit compiler, as I had no
>time to clean it up to make it independent of sizeof (unsigned int). It's not
>possible to generate large TBs under 32-bit Unix (e.g. Linux) because of the 2Gb
>file limitation those dumb operating systems have. And we had no time to fix
>DATACOMP, so it still cannot handle very large files. So, for now maximum that
>can be done with current code base is pawnless KxxKyz, and largest TBs have to
>be produced on the machine running "real" OS - i.e. Windows NT :-).
>

Or BeOS! :)

This is very good, thanks very much Eudene.

Ren.



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