From: Stephen & Tammy House <house@ro.com>
To: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@spectre.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Looking for generic hash function
Date: 1996/08/21
Date: 1996-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <321BA84E.693F@ro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EACHUS.96Aug19172952@spectre.mitre.org
Robert I. Eachus wrote:
>
> In article <4v23jd$mg9@News.Dal.Ca> grandyre@newton.ccs.tuns.ca (Robert Grandy) writes:
>
> > The function would return a pretty much random Integer based on its
> > generic parameter. I was thinking of using the 'size attribute,
Most hash functions are used to map a record into a structure (read
array). So the data_type from the example I left before should be the
key to the record being stored/retrieved. Your hash will make a nice
random number generator, but if the record needed is ever passed by
value through the system, you'll never find it.
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-16 0:00 Looking for generic hash function Robert Grandy
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Stephen & Tammy House
1996-08-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-19 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-08-21 0:00 ` Stephen & Tammy House [this message]
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