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Subject: Re: Windows and pipes

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 02:16:46 04/15/04

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On April 15, 2004 at 05:01:28, Fabien Letouzey wrote:

>>Btw, Fruit use only 33 MB memory when I set the hash to 60 MB.
>>Is this intended, are you using a power 2 size table?
>
>Yes, although I intend to use modulo later.
>Why are you surprised, I thought most engines only used power of two?
>I also thought 16 bytes was the most common size for entries, followed by 12
>bytes.

I think it is a design choice, the AND is slightly faster but the modulo
utilizes the memory better.
Some suggest fixing this by using a lot of smaller tables, I don't like that
though, it would mean more probes (expensive) and more complex (hence buggy)
code.

According to some papers, if you do modulo a big prime you also get a better
distribution.

-S.

>Fabien.



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