Load factor

[Maya]

Is there any reason why my hashtable load factor doesn't accept the
value i assign to? it always resets it self to the default which is
0.72f although i initialized the table using:

HashTable HT = new HasTable(100,1.0f)

Thank you,

Maya.

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

And how might you be determining that your Hashtable has a different load
factor
than the one passed in your constructor? Could you please post a short but
complete code example?
Peter

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"Maya" wrote:

Is there any reason why my hashtable load factor doesn't accept the
value i assign to? it always resets it self to the default which is
0.72f although i initialized the table using:

HashTable HT = new HasTable(100,1.0f)

Thank you,

Maya.

[Brian Gideon]

Maya,

That's by design. The value specified in the constructor is actually
reduced by 72 percent. Microsoft felt that a load factor of 0.72 was
optimal and anything higher would degrade performance so they
automatically scale the value you provide. See the following article
for more information.

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/datastructures_guide2.asp>

Brian

Maya wrote:

Is there any reason why my hashtable load factor doesn't accept the
value i assign to? it always resets it self to the default which is
0.72f although i initialized the table using:

HashTable HT = new HasTable(100,1.0f)

Thank you,

Maya.