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

Author: Francesco Di Tolla

Date: 07:42:12 09/26/03

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>40M might be too big, but the memory is wasted otherwise
>and bigger is never worse, for me.

I don't have any evidence about Crafty, and you know it better thanm us :-), but
with other programs I have noticed sometimes that increasing the hash could even
worsen the serach speed, I guess this is due to the time wasted for cleaning the
hash.

Of course this is more relevant for blitz games.

ciao
Franz



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