Mak lives in a fevered dream, permanently rooted in 1999. http://getcomposer.org/ http://laravel.com http://symfony.com
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mak Kolybabi <m...@kolybabi.com> wrote: > On 2013-12-18 13:55, Nathan Wild wrote: > > p.s. I'll be sure to let Mak know so he can troll the meeting ;) > > Maybe I can do a presentation about proper hashing algorithms and > carefully choosing function names. From [1]: > > "Back when PHP had less than 100 functions and the function hashing > mechanism was strlen(). In order to get a nice hash distribution of > function names across the various function name lengths names were > picked specifically to make them fit into a specific length bucket." > > So function names were chosen partly to be different lengths to hash > better with the worlds dumbest hash algorithm. This is why PHP > programmers can't have nice things. > > [1] http://news.php.net/php.internals/70691 > > -- > Mak Kolybabi > <m...@kolybabi.com> > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
_______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
