Re: [Caml-list] getting the type of a polymorphic data ?

["Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk" <qrczak@knm.org.pl>]

W liście z czw, 12-08-2004, godz. 15:57 +0200, Diego Olivier Fernandez
Pons napisał:

> If the only case of collision is due to modulo 2^31 then it is - at
> least for me - reasonable since the user is supposed to have a minimal
> knowledge of computer science. And Caml allows him to check with
> max_int / min_int for overflows.

I'm not sure what do you mean, but there are 2^31 int values, half of
them negative, which map to 2^30 hashes, all non-negative. Hashing an
int stripts its sign bit.

This was on 32-bit architectures. On 64-bit architectures hashes are
still modulo 2^30, but there are 2^63 different ints.

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