Re: [ANN] LuaJIT-2.0.0-beta1

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:33:28 +0100
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:

> * Rob Kendrick:
> 
> > One approach I've used in the past is to use an (extremely) trivial
> > PRNG to decide which byte to hash next, using the current hash
> > value as the seed, and the length of the string as the initial seed.
> 
> See the other thread---it's pretty easy to force collisions with
> longer strings.

To force, or accidentally come by?  If the former, it's pretty easy
whatever hash you use, unless it's a cryptographic one, which you don't
want at all in this context.

B.