Re: [Scidb-users] Database format

2012-02-28 Thread Fulvio
le I/O *is* the slowest part of large DB transactions. Nope, scid use a very clever tree_search algorithm that read on average less than 5% of the sg4 database. Simple speed test: caching the databases into RAM $cat scid_database_name* > /dev/null give only a slight performance improvement. Bye, Fulvio

Re: [Scidb-users] Database format

2012-03-02 Thread Fulvio
le and record the performance gain Then you can compare the two results and draw you conclusions. Bye, Fulvio Gregor Cramer wrote: - Improve the speed of position searching Scid use only 1-byte for non-queen moves, and it's very clever, but very slow to decode. Nowadays harddisk space is

Re: [Scidb-users] about speed of PGN parsing

2014-02-18 Thread Fulvio
pietro grandinetti wrote: Hello, i could not find the chessX index file (to try delete it and re-open the database); where do chessX save it? They should be inside your "documents" folder (with .cxi extension). Bye, Fulvio