Re: Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard
From: Brian Inglis (Brian.Inglis_at_SystematicSW.Invalid)
Date: 02/27/05
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:27:10 GMT
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 20:07:06 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Randy
Howard <randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net> wrote:
>In article <fpcUd.6704$873.367@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
>horedson@earthlink.net says...
>> Excellent summary.
>> Wish I could submit my code to such good reviewers.
>
>Post your code to c.l.c sometime and watch what happens. :-)
>
>> A Google search will find some research results on good hashes.
>
>More than "some", by far. I few years ago I was really interested
>in trying to find an "optimal" hash function for a project. It
>took almost no time to have a stack of paper from floor to desk
>height filled solely with research papers on string hashing, with
>no redundancy. I then decided that there was no "grand unified
>theory of string hashing" and stopped looking for one. Judging
>by the number of new papers being offered on the topic regularly,
>some still think it's lurking out there. :-)
Knuth's tAoCP seems to summarize anything significant known about
algorithms he has covered. When are his next chapters coming out, or
does he have to upgrade V1-3 to MMIX assembler first?
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