On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Matthew Knepley <[email protected]> writes:
> > What will we use to uniquely identify a block of options? I hate the idea
> > of a random string.
> > Its too easy to mess up. Should we use a class+type_name?
>
> Prefix is relevant.  We could hash the contents to make the comparison
> fixed-length.
>

So, SHA1(class, type_name, prefix)? I could live with that. Then we
maintain a
khash table of those we have seen while printing.

   Matt

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