[Python-Dev] Counting collisions for the win (original) (raw)

Frank Sievertsen frank at sievertsen.de
Fri Jan 20 13:12:57 CET 2012


No, that's not true. Whenever a collision happens, other bits are mixed in very fast.

Frank

Am 20.01.2012 13:08, schrieb Victor Stinner:

I'm surprised we haven't seen bug reports about it from users of 64-bit Pythons long ago A Python dictionary only uses the lower bits of a hash value. If your dictionary has less than 2**32 items, the dictionary order is exactly the same on 32 and 64 bits system: hash32(str)& mask == hash64(str)& mask for mask<= 2**32-1.




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