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Subject: Re: Pawn Hashkey Size

Author: Severi Salminen

Date: 00:26:02 12/03/01

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>Many people use 32-bit pawn hashkeys. But I've found that 32 bits is not enough
>to avoid collisions. 64-bit seems to be enough, and maybe less could do the job.
>Why do people use 32-bit keys, when it screws up evaluation this way?

32-bit keys are still a lot (well, a little maybe) faster to use and as far as I
know they don't screw the evaluation up. I implemented pawn hashtable yesterday
and using 32-bit keys I still get very high hit rates and no inconsistencies -
the 65536 element table hardly fills up. But I will maybe test about collisions.
How did you test it?

Severi




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