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Author pitrou
Recipients alexandre.vassalotti, neologix, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters, vstinner
Date 2014-05-23.08:57:26
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> "_Py_hashtable_hash_ptr is quite crude in that it doesn't even try to compensate for pointer alignment, so there will automatically be many collisions. Only one hash bucket every 8 or 16 will be used, at best."
> 
> I chose to use _Py_HashPointer() to drop (shift) lower bits. Do you
> mean that it's not enough? Python memory allocator uses an alignement
> on 8 bytes (2**3).

Ah, sorry, I just hadn't realized that.
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2014-05-23 08:57:26pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, tim.peters, vstinner, alexandre.vassalotti, neologix, serhiy.storchaka
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