[Vm-dev] String hash function

[tim Rowledge]

> On 13-04-2017, at 2:19 PM, Clément Bera <bera.clement at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This means that if a hash of a 1MB String is computed it takes a hell of a time. 
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> I wonder why we don't compute the string hash from a small number of inner characters taken randomly but deterministically from the String. From example, for all strings longer than 5 characters, one could pick only 5 characters in the String to compute its hash.

Yay! We haven’t had a good hash function argument in *ages*!


tim
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