Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Using a fairly small value (4k) should not make the results much worse > from a security perspective, but might be problematic from a > collision/distribution standpoint.
Keep in mind the average L1 data cache size is between 16KB and 64KB. 4KB is already a significant chunk of that. Given a hash function's typical loop is to feed back the current result into the next computation, I don't see why a small value (e.g. 256 bytes) would be detrimental. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue13703> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
