From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: wli@movementarian.org
Cc: kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update jhash.h with the new version of Jenkins' hash
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:29:28 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211.162928.193706021.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090212001223.GA5757@movementarian.org>
From: wli@movementarian.org
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:12:23 -0500
> (double)0xdeadbeef/((unsigned long long)1 << 32) is a rather poor
> approximation of (sqrt(5)-1)/2. If this value which is not the
> golden ratio is arbitrary, calling it something different from
> JHASH_GOLDEN_RATIO would surprise the code's readers much less.
Then we can change the name, whatever...
But really, anyone truly interested will read the friggin' web site
where all the design documents and hash test results live.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-12 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 10:19 [PATCH] Update jhash.h with the new version of Jenkins' hash Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-11 20:19 ` Michał Mirosław
2009-02-11 22:50 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-11 23:23 ` Michał Mirosław
2009-02-12 0:12 ` wli
2009-02-12 0:29 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-02-12 0:41 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-02-12 9:05 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-12 9:55 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-02-12 9:11 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-12 9:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-12 9:41 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-12 13:46 ` Kyle Moffett
2009-02-17 17:13 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-18 5:11 ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-18 11:50 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2009-02-12 19:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12 2:58 ` Rusty Russell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-10 19:40 Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-10 21:19 ` Scott Feldman
2009-02-10 22:03 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-02-11 1:17 ` David Miller
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