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Subject: Re: hashing in QS

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 02:23:00 10/20/04

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On October 20, 2004 at 04:57:22, Richard Pijl wrote:

>
>>well, there are people doing two hashtables anyway, one for shallow and one for
>>deep nodes. qs/main search fulfils that type of requirement too. not that i'm
>>convinced of using 2 tables at all, just asking around for opinions.
>
>This is different from just a separate qsearch hashtable. In fact, I do have two
>hashtables now, one depth preferred, and one replace always and did find an
>improvement by doing it this way. The depth preferred table is supposed to store
>the 'expensive' nodes, where the replace always table should store the 'local'
>nodes. Catching the 'local' transpositions is mainly used for shallow searches,
>but limiting it to only qsearch seems to be counter-productive.
>Richard.

You do not need 2 tables for that purpose and you can use one table with more
than one move for every hash entry.

Uri



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