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Subject: Re: Hashtables: is larger always better?

Author: Torstein Hall

Date: 16:08:06 09/22/01

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On September 22, 2001 at 18:29:46, Andreas De Troy wrote:

>When I see results for the so called "Fritzmarks", I notice that the actual
>numbers decrease with increasing hashtables. Is this an artefact of the
>measurement? In other words, are larger hashtables always better? I suppose it
>depends of the speed of the processor. If you have, for instance an Athlon 1 Ghz
>(or a 1.5 Ghz or...), does it -in general- make sense to increase the size of
>the hashtables to 256 Mb, 512 Mb or more?
>
>Thanks in advance for any help!

It also depends on your time settings. For long time analysis I think very big
Hashtables are always a bonus.

Torstein



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