Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 16:13:34 02/09/01
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On February 09, 2001 at 19:04:45, David Rasmussen wrote: >On February 09, 2001 at 10:39:09, Pat King wrote: > >>On February 07, 2001 at 10:59:31, Pat King wrote: >> >>>I have seen it written here that with 64 bit Zobrist hashing, the perfect key >>>should change 32 bits. When I had what I thought to be hashing problems, I >>>captured some stats on my hash keys. I found that most of them changed 28-36 >>>bits (within 4) with a few outliers as far as 13 bits from "perfection". I also >>>checked that I was not generating duplicate keys. How good or bad is this? >>>Should I work on the average, or the outliers? Any comments appreciated :) >>> >>>Pat >>Thanks to all for your thoughtful replies. For what it's worth, the only change >>I've made is to generate a key set with hamming distance 31-33, with a >>significant improvement in hash performance (thanks to Ricardo for providing a >>reasonable argument to justify the 32 bit standard). I have yet to compare this >>set with Rob's 16 bit criteria for XORing any 2 keys. >> >>Pat > >But 32 isn't optimal. As high as possible is optimal.
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