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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: wli@movementarian.org, 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: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:41:26 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0902120141040.23714@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211.162928.193706021.davem@davemloft.net>


On Thursday 2009-02-12 01:29, David Miller wrote:
>
>> (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.

Why should we use deadbeef over golden_ratio anyway? It's just a
random constant. And I'd take the gold over beef anytime ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-12  0:41 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
2009-02-12  0:41     ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
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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