Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:18:27 +0100 From: "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD license compatible hash algorithm? Message-ID: <9bbcef730712280518k56696002w1437ec3469e2eeb2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4774F651.7060905@gmail.com> References: <5950EE0C-383D-4D6B-9991-A0DEABD2ADE4@u.washington.edu> <20071228003716.GB48997@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <B8D4C3C6-B867-4550-9F17-4DC6930D10E2@u.washington.edu> <fl2qiv$qoh$1@ger.gmane.org> <4774EF27.90307@gmail.com> <9bbcef730712280454w6b6f5e17s33631223d5571f83@mail.gmail.com> <4774F42C.5030105@gmail.com> <9bbcef730712280510v14806e7exb960f5da5f05e4d@mail.gmail.com> <4774F651.7060905@gmail.com>
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On 28/12/2007, Aryeh M. Friedman <aryeh.friedman@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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