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Subject: Re: Junior 6 and hash table clearing

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 08:08:27 12/23/99

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On December 23, 1999 at 10:55:01, Shep wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I noticed that on the PIII-550, Junior 6 takes 2 seconds to clear a 128 MB hash
>table.

3 seconds with the 184MB maximum in the GUI of Junior 6.

> That means on a slow machine or on Blitz time controls, it is essential
>to use a very small hash size (16 MB or below) for Junior.
>Didzis Cirulis also just reported that Junior scored only 1/8 in a 40 moves/1
>minute blitz tournament (16 MB hash - I suppose - on his AMD 75-P133).
>
>Test suite times are correct because in Analysis mode, the timer in the window
>which shows the pondering starts at 0:00:00, even if the timer in the status
>window is already at 0:02.

In J6 the timer usually starts at 0:00:01, at least with 184MB ht.

One more funny thing: J6 runs a bit faster in CB7 than in J6.

Enrique

>Still I wonder why this is because no earlier Junior version had this problem.
>The only other program I know which takes so long is MChess, but that was in
>16bit DOS...
>
>---
>Shep



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