Re: [Bug-gnubg] makebearoff one-sided

[Nardy Pillards]

The 70 MB (68.8) run about 3 hours here (PIII, 256 MB).
Tried the os.bd twice, twice got stuck

Nardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Shaw" <address@hidden>
To: "GnuBg Bug (E-mail)" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:49 PM
Subject: [Bug-gnubg] makebearoff one-sided


> makebearoff $Revision: 1.17 $ on Windows 2000.
>
> I am using the command:
>
> C:\GnuBg>makebearoff -o 10 -f gnubg_os10.bd
>
> Getting up to about 800000 takes very little time, but the output slows to
a crawl at around 80000 to 90000.
>
> Nardy warns that it may take several hours to generate each gnubg_os.bd
(118 Mb) and gnubg_ts.bd (70 Mb). The latter took about 1 hr to generate on
my PC, so I'm expecting gnubg_os.bd to take only about 1.5 hours.
>
> I left one going overnight and got this far:
>
> 909500/3268760
> 04/12/2002  09:12            7,274,496 gnubg_os10.bd
> 04/12/2002  09:12           20,439,040 t026453.bd
>
> I started another at lunchtime and have got here in over 4 hours.
>
> 901300/3268760 (hasn't changed while I've been writing this email.)
> 04/12/2002  12:18            7,208,960 gnubg_os10.bd
> 04/12/2002  12:18           20,242,432 t004335.bd
>
> (I note that the output always ends at a round hundred. Is this a problem
or just how often the screen is updated?)
>
> I can't imagine why the output should slow down so much. I assume that the
program looks up the values of the possible resulting positions in the
database and averages them out. Obviously there are more possible positions
to examine as the number if chequers and points grows, but I wouldn't
imagine it to cause this amount of slowdown.
>
> Is something going wrong, or am I being too impatient?
>
> --Ian
>
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