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Subject: Re: How to handle HUGE hash table?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 21:09:10 03/29/00

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On March 29, 2000 at 21:44:37, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>48m is definitely small for 18 hours, although it won't result in the search
>being 10x slower or anything that significant...  It will easily slow it down
>by a factor of 2-3 however, maybe more...

That much? I remember doing some tests to see how hash table size affected tree
size for 3 minute searches. Increasing the hash table size beyond ~512k always
decreased the tree size, but by a tiny fraction of a percent. Do you have some
data about this stuff?

-Tom



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