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Subject: Re: Gandalf HASH notice for all!!

Author: Steffen Jakob

Date: 05:12:21 01/09/01

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>>Setting a flag takes some time especially if its part of a bitset in a data
>>type. I wrote a little example where setting the flags of 160 MB takes 1.75
>>seconds on my machine. Clearing the whole table with memset() takes 1.02
>>seconds. I dont know, but if Steend does something additionally it might take 5
>>seconds (or if the RAM is slower).
>
>Okay, your numbers are not unreasonable. You are still far below Jouni's 5 - 10
>seconds. I got ~ 0.5 secs to clear 64 MB with memset on my machine.
>I think that you must really do a lot per entry in order to make it take 5-10
>seconds. Wouldn't you agree to this, Steffen ?

Yes, you are right. Maybe Steen can give us some information why it takes so
long.

Greetings,
Steffen.

P.S.: I once had a discussion with Chrilly about reducing the hash size when you
are low on time and he agreed that this was a good idea (but I dont think that
he added this to Nimzo).



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