On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point was that with our much larger RAM sizes today, > the "right" balance for hash.c may now involve using more > memory to save processing time.
It wouldn't surprise me if exactly the reverse were true: that is, choosing a prima facie computationally more expensive strategy in order to fit the data structures into cache. James.
