BSD license compatible hash algorithm?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 28 05:18:28 PST 2007


On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Depends on the size of the table... I work with a algrothem that
> regularly has tables between 2^32 and 2^64 buckets (even though the we
> use a slightly different terminology)

This looks like an interesting project - are you using hashes not for
speed but as a generic storage organization algorithm?

And, I think at least some of the popular non-crypto hash algorithms
could be easily extended to work with 64-bit integers - are you really
using the "big" hashes for this?


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