use of hashtables by the different versions of an engine

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use of hashtables by the different versions of an engine

Post by mercury »

Is is possible that the version 2 of an engine use the hashtables of the version 1 previously loaded in the GUI? The version 2 could find faster the best move by using the hashtables of the version 1 and the false conclusion would be that engine 2 is better/faster than 1.
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Re: use of hashtables by the different versions of an engine

Post by Aleks Peshkov »

It is not possible for reasons of security between independent processes even if you run to identical versions of engine.