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Subject: Re: How to handle HUGE hash table?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:19:32 03/30/00

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On March 30, 2000 at 00:09:10, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>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


I don't have it handy, but I posted it in r.g.c.c a couple of years ago at
the insistence of "komputer korner".  I found that with a tiny table, going
to a huge table, the search time varied from 1X to 2.5X.  I ran the same
position, same depth, with hash sizes from tiny to huge.  I then ran the
same position, using the same time limit, and found that the huge hash table
program went 1 ply deeper...

probably can find this on Deja...



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