On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 19:41:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/20/2016 6:24 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:I don't see a need for hashing something. Would a randomly-generated stringsuffice?Hashing produces reproducible unique values. Random will not be reproducible and may not even be unique.
Just a troll here, but Quasirandom numbers are reproducible and unique. e.g., Sobol in base 2 can be very efficient and fast, for any output length.