Re: [PATCH] Define hash_mem in lib/hash.c to apply hash_long to an arbitraty piece of memory.

Falk Hueffner (falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
07 Jan 2003 06:18:42 +0100

Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> writes:

> +unsigned long hash_mem(void *buf, unsigned int len, unsigned int bits)
> +{
> + int hash = 0;

Shouldn't that be unsigned long?

BTW, in my experience using a good hash function is usually more
important than using a fast hash function. Especially the use of '^'
here could lead to very bad performance in obscure cases because of
bit canceling.

-- 
	Falk
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