Re: Deterministic hashing for lua tables

[hollyrosella@...]

Thanks, Tony.  Somehow I missed your reply the other day.  Putting the 
hash value in the object itself when possible sounds like a good 
simplification.

Holly

On 12/16/2011 at 7:43 PM, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
> hollyrosella@hushmail.com <hollyrosella@hushmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am imagining changing ltable.c:hashpointer to a function which when
> > called with a pointer p, looks p up in an internal hash table IHT.  If p
> > is already a key in IHT, the new hashpointer function would return the
> > value there, and if not, it would...
>
> Sounds quite plausible. Another option might be to eagerly store the PRNG
> value in the object itself.
>
> Tony.
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