Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:20:24 05/02/04
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On May 02, 2004 at 04:32:52, John Conte, Jr. wrote: >Is there a formula or a way to set the correct hashtable size? Manuals, >chessbase.com, etc have conflicting views, some say size is important, size is >not important, your suppose to hear ratcheting sound, your not suppose to hear >to much clicking a in disk swapping. Why the conflicting views and boy am I >confused. Years ago, the older programs usingonly DOS, I never had a problem >Thanks The word "conflict" is probably wrong. "differing" is better. Programs are different. They probe differently. Some probe in q-search some do not. All of that will result in different answers for different programs... Of course paging is _always_ bad in hashing. It turns a couple of hundred nano-seconds for a memory probe into many milliseconds for a disk read...
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