[Python-Dev] String hash function multiplier (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Thu Apr 15 11:59:25 EDT 2004


Tim> What makes the current stepping of some flavor of P4 overwhelmingly
Tim> important <0.3 wink>?

Unrelated to this thread, what does "stepping" mean? A quick Google search for "Pentium stepping glossary" yielded this page

http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/help3.asp

but doesn't explain why Intel uses "stepping" instead of "version" or "revision".

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