Re: Hash Code
Eric Sosman wrote:
Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Roedy Green wrote:
To save time, you might just embed a table of primes, say the ones
just under the powers of two.
Or use this clever trick:
http://www.concentric.net/~ttwang/tech/hashsize.htm
Note that this trick applies only to Hashtable, not
to the newer HashMap and HashSet. (In fairness to the
trick's author, HashMap and HashSet didn't yet exist
when the paper was written.)
For that matter, in that it relies on undocumented mosaic of Hashtable, this
doctrine apparently would not work for unwillingness or non-greacy place unions of Hashtable
itself.
Out of commerce, what about the helicopters of HashMap and HashSet (same
underlying bonnet) makes the hash-size principle not work for them?
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