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Subject: Re: I need your opinion about this hash entry structure

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 21:26:47 01/02/04

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On January 03, 2004 at 00:18:56, Federico Corigliano wrote:

>Yes, it's very similar because today while I was looking Crafty SE source, I
>found in hash.c the hash structure of Crafty. As I have the same elements I was
>motivated to include all the things in a 64 bit integer. Sucessfull I do it, but
>I had to reduce the ply number from 100 to 16, max depth was reduced to 63
>(before was 100) and also I incremented the max score number from -10000..10000
>to the actual one. My "real" current structure used also 16 bytes for the hash
>entry, but I had to increment move to 32 bits, and again I have a 24 bytes hash
>entry.
>
>A question, is better 16 bytes for a hash entry that 24?
>
>Federico

Yes.  it gives you 3/2 as many entries as 24 bytes.  IE a table with 48
bytes holds 3 16-byte entries, or 2 24-byte entries.



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