Re: Hash Table Collisions (n.runs-SA-2011.004)

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 04/01/2012 4.17, Miles Bader wrote:
> An "all characters" hash is not free, especially for_very_  long
> strings (I regularly handle 500MB strings), and the benefit of such a
> change needs to be weighed against the costs, weighted by the
> likelihood of each case.  [This is especially true on less performant
> hardware, and I think Lua is much more frequently used on such
> platforms compared to more bloated/weighty languages like Python,
> Ruby, etc.]

Perhaps an option to set the hash function (as we can set the 
allocator), or just a definition in luaconf.h to the same effect, could 
be in line with the Lua way of doing things.

--
  Enrico