Re: Max length of string keys in hash tables

[Shmuel Zeigerman <shmuz@...>]

Peter Cawley wrote:
> The code is accessing (upto) 32 bytes in total, not every 32nd byte.
> e.g. for a 1MB string, just 32 bytes are visited for the hash rather
> than 32768 bytes (1024*1024/32).

And what happens if there are two 1 MB strings that differ by 1 byte (at 
arbitrary position)?

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Shmuel