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Author pitrou
Recipients asvetlov, christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith, jcea, mark.dickinson, pitrou, python-dev, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2013-04-09.13:34:33
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Message-id <1365514473.29.0.657560354102.issue16427@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Well, the quality of the hash function is clearly reduced:

>>> hash("abcdefgh") & 0xff
206
>>> hash("abcdefgi") & 0xff
206
>>> hash("abcdefgj") & 0xff
206
>>> hash("abxxxxxx") & 0xff
206
>>> hash("aaaaaa11") & 0xff
206
>>> hash("aaaaaa12") & 0xff
206


Now to know if that may produce slowdowns in some situations... (dicts and sets have a sophisticated probing algorithm which takes into account the whole hash value, not the masked one).
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2013-04-09 13:34:33pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, tim.peters, rhettinger, gregory.p.smith, jcea, mark.dickinson, vstinner, christian.heimes, asvetlov, skrah, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka
2013-04-09 13:34:33pitrousetmessageid: <1365514473.29.0.657560354102.issue16427@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2013-04-09 13:34:33pitroulinkissue16427 messages
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