Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:

> Simon Burge <sim...@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >  [ ... ]
> > > 
> > > Log Message:
> > > 
> > > Add MurmurHash2 -- a non-cryptographic hash function by Austin Appleby.
> > > The code is taken from the upstream and is in the public domain.
> > 
> > I'm curious why you've chosen MurmurHash2 instead of MurmurHash3 given the
> > known problems with MurmurHash2?  Also, should the filename have a "2" in
> > it?
> 
> It meets my needs.

What are your needs?  I don't see this change discussed anywhere.

> Are you referring to the weakness when using 4-bytes?
> Anyway, that is why the file name does not have 2 in it, so that we could
> add MurmurHash3 as well.

That's completely different to the other hashes we have in the source
tree.  Can you rename the file so that it's consistent please?

Cheers,
Simon.

Reply via email to