On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 20:47:30 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Umm, the idea of a hash is to *quickly* compute a value that's (mostly) unique for a given object. In most cases, the bit representation is good enough.
I don't understand what you're saying. hash(tuple("foo".dup)) MUST be equal to hash(tuple("foo".dup")). Bitwise hashing makes no sense whatsoever.