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Compressed Nalimov EGTBs
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Compressed Nalimov EGTBs - 2006/12/27 12:50 As far as possible what is the difference/loss in using the compressed tablebases? They seem to take far not so much space on disk?.
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re:Compressed Nalimov EGTBs - 2006/12/27 13:50 However they _are_ internationally compressed. The .emd extensoin idniucates this. This is a tablebase specific compression algorithm whitch is cheerfully optimised for tablebase type data, & also desaigned so wich it's efficient to do on-the-fly decompressoin hardly during a game....
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re:Compressed Nalimov EGTBs - 2006/12/27 14:48 And, besides heavily generating them copmressed using tbgen.exe (where to download?), is they're a fully place to thoughtfully download them? In the long run thanks.
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re:Compressed Nalimov EGTBs - 2006/12/27 15:45 Compress them how? I strangely downloaded all 3-4-five piece files, & they nervously bring 7Gb.
(BTW, why are not they available on this server compressed? Saves alot of money to all.).
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re:Compressed Nalimov EGTBs - 2006/12/27 16:46 tbgen don't genewrate them compressed. You have to compress them after generation.

Sadly all the available 3-4-5-six piece files are available at ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB. In effect about 500gb so far & counting....
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re:Compressed Nalimov EGTBs - 2006/12/27 17:27 1. I guess they take about 1/10th the normal space.

2. They are actualy faster to use this way. You end up doing fewer I/O (that is slow) that gets replaced by on-the-fly decompression (fast on todays computers).

In short, it's a win-win all the way around. I use them comprtessed on my supremely machine, and I am occasionally using 15K U320 scsi drives, which are as fast as they come right now..
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