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Subject: Re: hash table size - is a power of 2 still an advantage these days?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:30:06 09/25/03

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On September 24, 2003 at 21:18:02, Pham Hong Nguyen wrote:

>>I try to use _most_ of main memory for serious games, and if you have a
>>1 gig machine, I generally use something like hash=784M, hashp=40M,
>>cache=128M, and go from there...
>
>Just a curious question: what is cache of Crafty? (or how do you use it?). Many
>thanks.


It is a standard part of Eugene's egtb.cpp code.  It is used for a big chain
of buffers for egtb I/O, maintained in LRU order.  It reduces real I/O to
endgame tables.

• Re: hash table size - is a power of 2 still an advantage these days? Pham Hong Nguyen 19:12:24 09/25/03
  • Re: hash table size - is a power of 2 still an advantage these days? Robert Hyatt 19:30:03 09/27/03

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