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Subject: Re: Non power of two hash table sizes

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 07:48:25 02/19/02

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On February 19, 2002 at 02:36:32, Bernhard Bauer wrote:

>On February 18, 2002 at 22:52:35, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On February 18, 2002 at 15:43:09, Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso wrote:
>>
>>>My program uses hash tables witch are a power of two.
>>>In order to compute the index to an hash table of this kind I simply do:
>>>  hashindex=(hashkey & hashsize)
>>>in witch hashsize is a mask with for example the first 12 bits set for a size of
>>>4096 entries.
>>>I would like to know how to compute the index to a hash table that can have
>>>sizes like 1MB, 7MB, 45MB, 49MB, 50MB, ..etc
>>>Could someone please explain how to do this?
>>>
>>>Thank you,
>>>Alvaro Cardoso
>>
>>
>>index = signature % hash_size
>
>If it's so easy, wouldn't it be nice to do it that way in Crafty?
>That way many users could use a bigger hash size.
>Kind regards
>Bernhard


It can be a killer.  For example, old SPARC machines do not _have_ an integer
divide instruction.  So it would kill performance.  Many newer processors do
the integer divide far slower than the AND I use now.

I haven't tested the speed difference in a long time, but on the sparc where
Crafty started, it was huge because every divide turned into a procedure call.



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