leerho commented on issue #34: URL: https://github.com/apache/datasketches-rust/issues/34#issuecomment-3680501157
I forgot to include a comment on "why the seedhash": Early on, because of the ability to change the seed, we wanted to alert the user to a situation where the incoming sketch in a merge operation, for example, was not created from the same seed. Sort of a "safety harness". It is a 16 bit hash and is kept with the metadata of the stored sketch. The seed itself is never stored and has to be supplied by the user each time -- unless the user chooses the default seed. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
