#4108: GHC.Integer.hashInteger is a misnomer and confuses people
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Reporter: duncan | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: Compiler
Version: 6.12.2 | Keywords:
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Comment(by guest):
It seems to me that this function serves perfectly well as a hash
function.
A hash function is any well-defined procedure or mathematical function
that converts a large, possibly variable-sized amount of data into a small
datum, usually a single integer that may serve as an index to an array.
— Wikipedia
It seems to me that this function evenly distributes the integers among
the Ints and is fast
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Eric Mertens
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/4108#comment:1>
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