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

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 01:35, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
> 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 ;-)
>
> --
>  Enrico
>

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