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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:37:16 -0600
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD license compatible hash algorithm?
Message-ID:  <20071228003716.GB48997@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <5950EE0C-383D-4D6B-9991-A0DEABD2ADE4@u.washington.edu>
References:  <5950EE0C-383D-4D6B-9991-A0DEABD2ADE4@u.washington.edu>

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:30:40PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	Just wondering if anyone knew of a good BSD license compatible key-based=
=20
> hash placement / retrieval algorithm that was available anywhere.
> 	I'm looking for a reliable way to lookup objects to see if a given actio=
n=20
> would be performed in my revised pkg_install(1), to thus efficiently=20
> pre-plan out the installation dependencies and fully utilize=20
> multiprocessing capabilities of contemporary machines / eliminate duplica=
te=20
> dependency install requirements.
> 	I know I can use tree structures or hash(3), but I want to avoid trees=
=20
> (inefficient with large data sets of course) and I was looking for a=20
> non-BDB based solution (for right now, with this given structure as I don=
't=20
> want to write everything to disk). Later on it might be a good idea to=20
> cache the results using BDB on disk, but for now I was just wondering if=
=20
> there were any non-BDB based hashing solutions that anyone knew of.

We imported hash(9) from Open/NetBSD recently.  It may do what you want.

-- Brooks

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