> 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.

but it seems that this number is not that much important since,
as said in the ml source:
(* We do dynamic hashing, and resize the table and rehash the elements
   when buckets become too long. *)


>
> Erik
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