Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 13:26:52 01/16/98
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If you allocate a hash table that is too large, you create the perfect machine basher. It will beat on your machine's virtual memory so hard you won't be able to breathe. Oh, and it will play chess badly, too, assuming you can even move your mouse to enter moves. When I was in college, every once in a while someone would do this to the school's mini-computer for fun. They'd make a program that would act something like this, and it would prevent anyone from getting any work done until the program stopped. Sometimes the machine would get so slugged that the program would take a very long time to figure out that it was dead, so people would be pounding on this poor guy while he frantically pressed ^C over and over. If you use a hash table that is too small for the amount of time you are searching, the program will play less well (probably slightly less well) than it should, but at least you can move your mouse. bruce
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