From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: function hash
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 07:13:08 GMT
Date: 2001-05-31T07:13:08+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8amR6.49001$%i7.38333053@news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87u2225zsn.fsf@deneb.enyo.de
>A hash function returning only 256 different values? Are there any
>applications for it?
Anytime cutting the size of a search by a factor of 256 seems useful.
Or a cheap test to see whether it's worth an expensive comparison to
check for a match with one of a few objects.
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2001-05-27 22:07 function hash Nacho Robledo
2001-05-28 0:23 ` James Rogers
2001-05-28 6:47 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-30 20:48 ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-31 0:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-05-31 7:22 ` Florian Weimer
2001-05-31 19:21 ` Simon Wright
2001-05-31 7:13 ` tmoran [this message]
2001-05-28 17:04 ` Nacho Robledo
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