[Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win

Lennart Regebro regebro at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 06:49:16 CET 2012


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 06:02, Paul McMillan <paul at mcmillan.ws> wrote:
>> We may use a different salt per dictionary.
>
> If we're willing to re-hash everything on a per-dictionary basis. That
> doesn't seem reasonable given our existing usage.

Well, if we get crazy amounts of collisions, re-hashing with a new
salt to get rid of those collisions seems quite reasonable to me...

//Lennart


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