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Subject: Re: Non power of two hash table sizes

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 22:54:35 02/18/02

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On February 19, 2002 at 01:48:51, David Rasmussen wrote:

>
>Eh... How about just using the mod operator, %?
>
>On February 18, 2002 at 16:41:31, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2002 at 15:43:09, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>>
>>>My program uses hash tables witch are a power of two.
>>>In order to compute the index to an hash table of this kind I simply do:
>>>  hashindex=(hashkey & hashsize)
>>>in witch hashsize is a mask with for example the first 12 bits set for a size of
>>>4096 entries.
>>>I would like to know how to compute the index to a hash table that can have
>>>sizes like 1MB, 7MB, 45MB, 49MB, 50MB, ..etc
>>>Could someone please explain how to do this?
>>
>>Let's suppose that you want some size of 49MB.  Find the smallest prime number
>>that is less than or equal to your target size (it's easier than it sounds).
>>
>>Now, to hash to your table, the lookup is:
>>hashindex = hashkey % hashsize;
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You mean like this?



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