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Subject: Re: question about the value of increasing pawn hash size.

Author: Johan Hutting

Date: 09:42:23 09/06/03

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On September 06, 2003 at 07:44:48, Uri Blass wrote:

>Is there an important reason to use more than small number of entries(say 2^14
>entries for pawn hash tables).

More stores, more hits. However, the benefit may drop rapidly. This is something
you can test yourself.
>
>How much speed improvement do you get when you compare 2^14 entries for pawn
>hash and 2^17 entries or more entries?

Again, this is something you can test yourself. You want to know how much it
improves Movei, not engine XYZ.
>
>Is it something constant or something that is dependent on the main hash tables?

I'm using a constant value. Unlike eval and transposition hash there are not
that many possibilities, so... :) YMMV, test test test Uri.
>
>What is the percentage of hash hits for pawns as a function of the number of
>entries?

Test :) Or alter crafty or any other open-sourced program with pawnTT. I'm not
interested in getting the perfect pawnhashsize, it's too dependant on many
factors and my current number works fine (crap for start position, 94+% in most
others) so far.

Regards,
Johan



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