#rehash in ImageSegment
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Nov 22 20:25:46 UTC 2006
Avi Bryant wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me why we need to rehash all sets when loading
> in an ImageSegment? The #identityHash of objects is preserved, and
> presumably any other #hash function will also be ok. The fact that
> this happens in #restoreEndianness makes me think that maybe the
> #identityHash changes if you move a segment between architectures, but
> I haven't tested that. At any rate it seems odd to do it
> unconditionally, since this often seems to be a major percentage of
> the load time for an image segment.
It is necessary since the ImageSegment can refer to objects in the image
(via its outPointers) whose hashes _are_ different. Most importantly
symbols.
Cheers,
- Andreas
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