Also if someone knew what is the purpose of "now / 30" in the task name, please: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDC_TU7rtc#t=41m35
Regards J. Záruba 2010/6/7 Jaroslav Záruba <jaroslav.zar...@gmail.com> > Hello > > I'm reading through the PDF that Brett Slatkin has published for %subj > %. > http://tinyurl.com/3523mej > > In the video (the Fan-in part) Brett says that the work_index has to > be a hash, so that 'you distribute the load across the BigTable' > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDC_TU7rtc#t=48m44 > > And this is how work_index is created: > work_index = '%s-%d' % (sum_name, knuth_hash(index)) > ...which I guess creates something like 'votesMovieXYZ-54657651321987' > > My question is why only one half of work_index is hashed? Is it > important? > Would it be bad to do md5('%s-%d' % (sum_name, index)) so that the > hash would be like '6gw8....hq6'? > > Regards > J. Záruba -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
