Re: Ideas for better performance

[Arne Goedeke]

What happened to the idea to change the hash tables sizes to powers of 2? 
As far as I remember this was mentioned on the list long ago. How well are 
the hash values distributed by the current hashing algorithm? Maybe it 
needs to be replaced by a different one? Are there any other side-effects 
aside from breaking compatibility for hash()?

arne