On 2004-04-15 at 19:39:25, Austin Hastings wrote: > Of course you used for buffers that were not powers of 2. Had they > been powers of 2, you would have used & or &~. The fact that you > didn't use a power of 2 is pretty questionable. The dread Unix > wizards will no doubt have questions for you about this. :-)
What are you talking about? The biggest use of modulus is in implementing hashes and when you are implementing hashes you want the number of buckets to be a prime number, not a power of two. -Mark
