Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs323] NCHAINS
Date: Friday, 30 Oct 2020, 11:40:53

    > Message Posted By: Unknown
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    > What is a good starting number for NCHAINS?

As stated in the specification,

  .                                            ...  Similarly, the number
  NCHAINS of chains in the hash table should be small initially and roughly
  double as the string table doubles to keep the load average low (e.g.,
  NCHAINS = 2^(NBITS-3) - 1, where NBITS is the number of bits needed to send
  all existing codes).  ...

--Stan-