From: Kuba Ober <ober.14@osu.edu>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Hash clash in polymorphic variants
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:56:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801140956.25449.ober.14@osu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk5mceabc.fsf-monnier+gmane.comp.lang.caml.inria@gnu.org>
On Monday 14 January 2008, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > What I meant was simply that instead of using some fixed hash function,
> > one could use a perfect hashing function which is optimal for its known
> > set of inputs, and won't ever generate a collision.
>
> The problem is that the set of inputs is not know at compile time, only
> at link time.
As I've said in the cited post, the perfect hash generator would have to be
invoked at link time, which shouldn't be a big deal.
Cheers, Kuba
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-14 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-10 17:09 Jon Harrop
2008-01-10 20:35 ` [Caml-list] " Eric Cooper
2008-01-10 21:24 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-10 21:40 ` David Allsopp
2008-01-11 13:30 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-11 13:48 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-11 16:14 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-11 18:40 ` David Allsopp
2008-01-14 12:20 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-14 14:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-14 14:56 ` Kuba Ober [this message]
2008-01-14 15:37 ` [Caml-list] " David Allsopp
2008-01-14 15:44 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-14 16:03 ` David Allsopp
2008-01-14 15:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-15 3:36 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
2008-01-15 4:59 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-15 9:01 ` Jacques Garrigue
2008-01-15 18:17 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-15 19:20 ` Gerd Stolpmann
2008-01-15 22:04 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-16 13:48 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-16 15:02 ` Dario Teixeira
2008-01-16 19:00 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-17 13:09 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-18 5:33 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-18 5:19 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-18 5:39 ` Kuba Ober
2008-01-16 3:26 ` Jacques GARRIGUE
2008-01-16 3:34 ` Yaron Minsky
2008-01-16 3:42 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-16 4:40 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-16 16:03 ` Eric Cooper
2008-01-16 10:50 ` Richard Jones
2008-01-14 17:14 ` Jon Harrop
2008-01-14 17:36 ` Alain Frisch
2008-01-11 0:15 ` [Caml-list] " Jacques Garrigue
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