On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:51 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote:- Some packages are just too large and obscure. For instance, if I were to do a 5 piece endgame tablebase package for crafty (which
I haven't done yet), we're talking 6G of disk space, and even the partial 6 piece tablebases are more than that. These packages
are not frivolous at all, but only a handful of people are going to be interested.
The source tarball is 6 gigs??
Yes. The "source" in this case represents a product of months of computation which would be entirely infeasible to do on the client side.
Matthias
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