> Btw, what will be the way to plug in an alternative hash function? > That is, there doesn't seem to be a separation of interface > and implementation in your patch (like with a template or a base-class > you inherit from).
Just change the inchash.h include file. The point was to only change a single place. Inheritance would need changing everything again for the new type (unless we came up with hash factories that would likely defeat virtualization and would be over engineering) -Andi
