Re: Lua5 / poor performance

["Russell Y. Webb" <rw20@...>]

> Any solution to this problem must change the way Lua hashes non-integer
> numbers. One particular solution is this:

I seem to recall that the string hashing function takes the length of 
string to hash so how about just hashing non-integer numbers like this 
(sorry for not looking up the actual routines, but you get the idea):

hash_of_nonint = string_hash((char *)&number, sizeof(number));

Not even all that ugly if you think of string_hash as more of a 
memory_block_hash function.

Hashing to the integer parts does seem amazingly poor in corner cases.

Russ