Re: Hash Table Collisions (n.runs-SA-2011.004)

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 04/01/2012 7.49, HyperHacker wrote:
> A thought: what if Lua allowed for the user to provide a different
> hash function at build-time or when creating the Lua state? The
> original function is good enough for the majority of use cases, but in
> cases like this where excessive collisions could be an issue, you
> could provide an alternate, maybe even using hardware-accelerated
> hashing...

Oh sorry, I hadn't seen your message before posting mine. I wasn't 
trying to steal the idea ;-)

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  Enrico