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Subject: Re: Pawn Hashkey Size

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 11:33:33 12/03/01

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>and while collisions might not themselves be evil, the increase in complexity of
>debugging etc. sure is. A very important invariant, that a position's

An interesting artifact of shortening the hash is that due to the increased
chance of collisions you will have a better chance of catching the collisions in
action, and make the program deal with them gracefully. i.e. A more debugged
program rather than the opposite ... Counterintuitive but true! By using a
larger hash key you actually move the problem forward intead of cathing it.

MvH Dan Andersson



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