How does Python or Javascript manage with their map implementations that use a hash to select a bucket?
One would want a low collision hash and that's really all that's needed to make unique filenames from input data that would be too long to just concatenate. Regards, Tim On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 at 22:07, Randall S. Becker <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > Follow-up Comment #3, bug #61594 (project make): > > To add my concern regarding integrating cryptographic hashes into GNU Make > relate specifically to import restrictions of some of these hashes to a > large > number of countries. Searching on Cryptographic Import Restrictions will > explain this. Having user selectable hashes through the load function would > decouple any restrictions that would otherwise be imposed and limit the > ability to use GNU Make; however, I would caution that using these > functions > in Open Source projects would transitively limit or confuse the ability to > build those projects if the hash functions are unknown or not available. > > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?61594> > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via Savannah > https://savannah.gnu.org/ > > >
