Re: Rehashing of big hash tables

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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 88 14:30 EDT
From: Sai-Cheong Arnold Chu <Gilgamesh@HEART-OF-GOLD>
Subject: Re: Rehashing of big hash tables
To: "3077::in%\"slug@warbucks.ai.sri.com\""@TSD1
Message-ID: <19880708183034.0.GILGAMESH@GRACIE>
 
I've noticed similar behavior when using the mailer on babyl files with more than
~170 messages.  Many operations become ridiculously slow.  Simply loading such
a file can take up to a few hours!!!  The worse part is that there are no warnings
as to when this "Phase transition" occurs.  If I had some warning, I can at least
try to keep the size of the file small.  How does the rest of 'SLUGies' take care
of this?
 
Regards,
Arnold Chu
chu%atc.bendix.com@relay.cs.net