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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