Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> added the comment:
> For that reason, I've only been looking at those that scored 10 (best > possible) on Appleby's SMHasher[1] test suite, which is used by everyone who > does recognized work in this field. So it seems that this SMHasher test suite doesn't catch the problem that we're seeing with negative integers. > I'm concerned that I've been putting way too much weight on "the new" tuple > test. [...] that's a minuscule region of the problem space. I'll admit that it's a miniscule region of the problem space. However, we ideally want a hash that works well for all kinds of inputs. If the hash function is good, it shouldn't be possible to write a hash collision test function which has a significantly higher chance of failing than random chance. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34751> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
