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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:03:45 09/27/03

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On September 26, 2003 at 10:42:12, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>>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


except I don't clear the hash.  :)



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