Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Hash codes

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 03:11:04 11/14/01

Go up one level in this thread


On November 14, 2001 at 05:11:34, Rémi Coulom wrote:

>It happened to me. I had been using only 32 bit (or maybe even a bit more, I do
>not remember) for years and never noticed any problem. TCB once crashed very
>mysteriously and I managed to find that this was because of a hash collision. I
>now use more bits and have made my hash algorithm a bit more collision-proof.

So, basically, it took a long time before it got you into
trouble, and even then it was because you were not carefull
to account for the possibility of a collision?

(I'm very tempted to run my own tests now)

--
GCP



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.