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Subject: Re: I think I missed something

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:52:37 12/07/01

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On December 07, 2001 at 18:13:18, William Bryant wrote:

>
>>I was seeing an error 400K-500K nodes, on my PIII/750 laptop, which is about
>>one error every 2 to 4 seconds.  On my quad (I didn't run the test there as it
>>was playing on ICC) this would turn into an error every second or less, which
>>is not acceptable.  Some positions produced _many_ errors per second, when there
>>were fewer pieces so that more pawn moves were being searched...
>
>I believe the thread was discussing the frequency of errors using a 32 pawn hash
>key which in previous threads you said that, after testing, produced no
>significant degree of collisions or errors.


This was a mistake on my part.  My testing (no errors) was actually done several
times, but prior to my conversion to 32 bit signatures for pawn hashing.  When I
tested this at David's urging, the number of collisions was ridiculous...  I am
now using 64 bits again.




>
>If I read the above correctly, this implies that it does produce an unacceptable
>level of errors?
>
>Or is this above error rate discussing the main hash table using a 32 bit key?
>

pawns only.   as explained above.



>Would you please clarify.
>Thank you.
>
>William



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