Re: I'm a total push-over..

[Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 11:45:25AM +0200, Marko Kreen wrote:

> The minus:
> - some memory i/o overhead which may or may not matter

If a string is short, it will probably reside in the processor cache, so
there is no real memory i/o overhead here. For more longer strings, it
may be better to do that in short chunks, so each chunk can reside in
the cache. But I don't think filenames are long, so it is not an issue
here.

> - the parts would not be fully generic, but special to hashing

I think the second part can be rather generic to be reused for hashing
something else that does not require filename specific case-folding.

Dmitry