From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Hashtbl.create 401
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:21:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050422132131.6ff2fbee.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42686ADE.1040406@havenrock.com>
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:09:18 -0600
Matt Gushee <mgushee@havenrock.com> wrote:
> Hello, all--
>
> While browsing through the Labltk source code (and perhaps in some other
> places), I noticed several instances of:
>
> Hashtbl.create 401
>
> Why 401?
Hash tables distribute data across a set of hash buckets. If
the number of hash buckets is prime (401 is prime) then their
is a better chance of the data being evenly distributed across
the buckets.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-22 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-22 3:09 Matt Gushee
2005-04-22 3:21 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
2005-04-22 12:06 ` [Caml-list] " padiolea
2005-04-23 0:26 ` sejourne_kevin
2005-04-22 3:33 ` Radu Grigore
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