Re: [gnugo-devel] opening db proposal

[Douglas Ridgway]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:

> [WRT increase in size of fuseki db]

> This is quite bad.  One simple measure is to pack fullboard patterns with
> `patval_compact' entries instead of `patval', where `patval_compact' can
> be defined as
> 
>   struct patval_compact {
>     short offset;
>     char  att;
>   }
> 
> This alone packs fuseki database almost two times.

This makes sense to me. Is there a reason not to just change patval, and 
have all the patterns take less room?

doug.