[Magma] performance (was: test result)

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Wed Aug 7 14:12:42 UTC 2002


Chris Muller <afunkyobject at yahoo.com> said:
>This allowed 100% dispersion using your tests and actually made the removeKey:
>test I posted earlier run as fast as with SmallIntegers!
>
Same with VW, it goes down to ~60ms.

>Is it a safe one?
>
I wouldn't know why not. As we've seen, all the damage that bad hash values
can do is to cause excessive collisions, so if you have a better hash
function, I'd say add it.


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