Author: Zach Wegner
Date: 11:47:09 09/26/04
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>I initialize the depth (draft) with -1. It takes essentially no time. >In the beginning I have, if depth == -1 then this is an empty entry. > >You could also use zero as initial value and test against zero. >It would miss all keys==0 but that wont hurt your programs strength... >Don't test if depth==0, that's not a good idea. >If you store an alternative key or part of the full 64-bit key in the >hash-entry, test against that instead. >/Peter I should have been more specific, this is in the pawn hash table and there is no draft. I'm thinking I might have to test against hashkey==0 in the pawn code, although this is not the sort of thing I like to write code for. Thanks, Zach
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