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Subject: Re: Uncompressing Tablebases ? (Nalimov)

Author: Ernst Walet

Date: 02:17:05 01/23/00

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I believe that CST2 uses them uncompressed, in contradiction to Chessbase
products and Shredder4.

Ernst-J.


On January 23, 2000 at 00:30:34, Eugene Nalimov wrote:

>Time the decompression utility is printing is CPU time spent in decompression
>code. It does not include disk I/O time - and you are having a lot of I/O.
>
>BTW, I think you are doing the error using decompressed TBs. For your disk
>(based on the price I think it's IDE/ATAPI, 5400? rpm - not 10krpm SCSI LVD)
>compressed ones should be faster, if you have reasonable CPU,
>
>Eugene
>
>On January 22, 2000 at 23:43:56, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>When I uncompressed some tablebases today I noticed the output when finished
>>shows something like 97325721  time=10.340 seconds.  What is this all about.  It
>>takes about 3 times longer to uncompress the files than the time given so what
>>does this mean?
>>Jim Walker



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