Re: [Caml-list] Impact of GC on memoized algorithm

[Jean-Christophe Filliatre <Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr>]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> No, OCaml's hash tables are resized automatically.

Alex Baretta writes:
> 
> Ok. So, just as I expected, I am guaranteed that I have no hash 
> conflicts desperately degrading the performance of my algorithm. 

Note that it is true only if your hash function is good enough.

I had once a code spending most of its time in the resizing of Ocaml's
hash tables because of a  bad hash function. This is particularly true
of the ocaml  default hash function on ``pure''  abstract syntax trees
(recursive data types with few  types such as int or strings). Writing
my own hash function immediately solved the performance issue.

(In your case, however, the problem seems to be elsewhere ince you are
using unique integers as keys).

As somebody already  said, a profiling is a simple way  to find out if
the hash tables resizing is the issue.

Best regards,
-- 
Jean-Christophe