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Greetings, I am following the algorithm mentioned here, http://www.gtoal.com/wordgames/wutka/dawg.html, to build a dawg structure. After inserting my...
joenellis2003
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Jan 2, 2004
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... Not really. For example my version at http://people.debian.org/~falk/dawg.tar.gz takes 3 seconds for 248519 words on an 800MHz Alpha. It requires the...
Falk Hueffner
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... My DAWG program makes the trie reduction in 2 seconds on a 1.3GHz Athlon. ... I guess that the lookslike method solves an isomorphism problem, right? You...
Gunnar Andersson
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Jan 2, 2004
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... I concur with the others; my JIT-compiled program takes ~20 seconds. ... Along with Gunnar's suggestion, changing the starting point of your reduction from...
Matt Lavallee
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Jan 2, 2004
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Mine takes a similar amount of time -- roughly 15 minutes and 1.8GB of memory on a 1.4Ghz Opteron, but that's because I'm building a DAGGAD, which equates to...
Brian Wickman
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Jan 2, 2004
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... It should be possible to have both time and memory scale mostly linearly, for example my implementation takes about 1 minute and 64 MB memory for a 35MB...
Falk Hueffner
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My C program builds the suffix tree for 264,057 words in less than 2 seconds on my Mac laptop (800 MHz running at 667 on battery). Memory is about 25M. I have...
Ian Korf
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Jan 3, 2004
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Hi: People with experience in Scrabble move generation (Brian, others?) please let us know: is there any noticable increase in move generation speed once you ...
Marvin The Paranoid A...
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Jan 10, 2004
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... Yes, it should be identical. The only conceivable speedup could be from better paging characteristics, but with modern memory sizes that is not an issue. ...
Graham Toal
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Jan 13, 2004
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OK nobody seems to be fielding this one, so even though I've never tested this, I'll describe the theory. The smaller your data structure, the more likely it...
Patrick Niesink
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Jan 13, 2004
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Oh. I must've missed this thread. When using an Opteron with 1MB cache, I get a 40% increase in speed with the minimized trie. With a 256K cache Athlon, the...
Brian Wickman
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Jan 14, 2004
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Anyone care to comment on the assertion in "Storing and Retrieving Keys in a Table by Cross-Indexing" (~1992), <http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/41290.html>, by W....
Steven Alexander
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Jan 30, 2004
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Hi all, ... With one query you will find a set of indices of keys (disregarding the cost of the query). The cost of reconstruction -- and we want the resulting...
Martin Läuter
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Feb 5, 2004
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Hi all. I'm a newbie here, so please forgive the inevitable faux pas for the next little while. I've written a small (~10K source, ~6K compiled) C program to...
flabdablet
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Feb 14, 2004
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OK, here's faux pas #1: assuming that a reply to my own first message didn't get accepted and repeating it at the start of a new thread :) I got sick of...
flabdablet
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Feb 14, 2004
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Folks, some news! I received an email a couple of days ago from Rex Gooch who has been working on word squares. While looking up some of our old discussions ...
Graham Toal
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Mar 13, 2004
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Any of you guys have easy access to a multi-processor system such as a grid or a loosely coupled array? I have a tensquare program running that looks like...
Graham Toal
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Mar 24, 2004
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Hi, As far as I know, there are in existence 5 different sets of Boggle cubes that were used over the years. Is this correct? I've attached my five files...
Chris Long
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Apr 6, 2004
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Using the OSPD and the small Boggle grid (1993 version), the number of words of lengths 5 and up that appeared in 100,000,000 random shakes of the cubes: 5...
Chris Long
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Apr 7, 2004
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Using the OSPD and the small Boggle grid (1993 version), the number of words of lengths 5 and up that appeared in 100,000,000 random shakes of the cubes: 5...
Chris Long
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Apr 7, 2004
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Is there any endgame solving software out there that is freely distributed and will run on a PC, or that is web-based? I'm looking for something at least as...
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Apr 10, 2004
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... You mean this one? http://bigftp.ocsystems.com/sim.html Apart from that one I don't know of any either. Have you asked GVC if he could fix whatever the...
Graham Toal
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Apr 11, 2004
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... http://www.davidst.com/attic/savant.zip Savant goes into endgame solving mode when set to level 20, its highest playing level. Was this the first or were...
David Stafford
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Apr 11, 2004
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David, I, for one, have never heard of Savant. Please, tell us about it? Thanks, Steven Gordon ... knows of ... highest ... solvers...
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Apr 12, 2004
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Steven, ... Savant was published as LanWords back in 1992. It was a crossword puzzle game for Windows that featured configurable rules (so you can configure...
David Stafford
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Apr 12, 2004
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... I had some trouble unpacking it. WinXP's built-in zip says it is corrupt, but unix unzip coped with it fine. You wrote this in C? Do you still have the...
Graham Toal
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Apr 12, 2004
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... This is curious. I checked it and you're right-- XP says it's corrupt. Then I downloaded it to my desktop and tried opening it with XP and it worked....
David Stafford
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Apr 12, 2004
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Did I hear about this problem? As of this morning, someone out there was doing SOWPODS end-game sims with no apparent trouble. --gvc...
G. Vincent Castellano
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Apr 12, 2004
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... Maven's first endgame player was in 1986. By 1990 it had evolved to the point where it outplayed human champions at tournament time controls. (Figure 1 ...
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