Author: Reinhard Scharnagl
Date: 04:20:10 12/23/03
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On December 23, 2003 at 07:16:20, Tord Romstad wrote: >On December 23, 2003 at 03:48:52, Peter Schäfer wrote: > >>What you may be asking is "how do you store a position in a hash table ?" >>Engines use hash keys of 8 bytes. > >Many engines use less than 8 bytes. 8, 6 or 4 bytes are most common, but I >know at least one engine which uses (or used?) only 3 bytes. > >Tord there is no need to store the full fingerprint into a hash-table. You can ommit the part which corresponds to the storage adress, because this will be only redundant data then. Reinhard.
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