On Sep 7, 2007, at 1:48 , Venkatesh KS wrote:
if keys are uri which could go upto a few hundred bytes then md5
would make sense?
What you want to use for a key is up to you. The only potential
issue with md5 is how much time you'll be computing them for reads
and writes.
It all boils down the number of entries per bucket.
I could hash on only 8 bytes and use the other 8 bytes for actual
comparison.
What do you mean by bucket here? Regardless of what you use as a
key, the distribution should be relatively even.
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Dustin Sallings
