[SR-Users] htable size

[Alex Balashov]

On 04/26/2010 07:31 AM, Henning Westerholt wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010, Alex Balashov wrote:
>> The htable size is static;  it doesn't dynamically resize itself up to
>> the next power of 2 after a certain utilisation threshold, right?
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> i think this is a static setting, as the memory is allocated on startup in
> shared memory. Do you've run into performance problems or memory size
> constraints with the htable module?

None whatsoever, I was just curious from a theoretical perspective.

The answer lets me know in an a priori way whether the htable is optimal 
for applications involving rapidly shrinking or contracting data sets, 
by several factors.

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