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Subject: Re: Hash table efficiency

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 20:04:42 12/08/00

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On December 07, 2000 at 13:20:29, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>On December 06, 2000 at 16:17:22, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>Repetition is a known hashing "issue".  But in fact, it is there even when
>>you aren't thinking about a repetition... because what says that you can search
>>from the node where you get the hash hit, to the terminal node that follows
>>that deeper in the tree, without repeating something?
>>
>>It is messy.  I simply ignore it.
>
>If I understand what you mean, you ignore the issue altogether right? you don't
>mean you ignore the repetition. In other words, you find a repetition, return
>DRAW from search() and also store the previous postion with score=DRAW in the
>hash table. Correct? If that is true, this is not the origin of my problem...
>
>Thanks,
>Miguel


This is what I do, yes.  Draw scores are a problem.  Some don't store them.
Dave Slate was a proponent of that approach.  I _always_ stored draw scores,
and still do.  Either way leads to errors.  My way leads to a faster search,
however.



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