On 01/01/2012 01:52 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 06:06:26PM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote: >> Indeed. The optional "seed" parameter to Hashtbl.create does exactly >> this in the new implementation of Hashtbl (the one based on Murmur3). > > It may be worth noting that Perl solved this problem (back in 2003) by > unconditionally using a seed which is a global set to a random number > during interpreter initialization.
That's how my initial reimplementation of Hashtbl worked, using the Random module to produce seeds, but I was told (correctly) that in security-sensitive applications it's better to leave the generation of random numbers under control of the programmer. For some applications Random.self_init might be good enough and for others stronger randomness is needed. Of course, you can trivially emulate Perl's behavior using the new Hashtbl implementation + the Random module. - Xavier Leroy -- Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management and archives: https://sympa-roc.inria.fr/wws/info/caml-list Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
