On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:57:42 -0800 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Hm... I started out as a big fan of the randomized hash, but thinking more > about it, I actually believe that the chances of some legitimate app having > >1000 collisions are way smaller than the chances that somebody's code will > break due to the variable hashing.
Breaking due to variable hashing is deterministic: you notice it as soon as you upgrade (and then you use PYTHONHASHSEED to disable variable hashing). That seems better than unpredictable breaking when some legitimate collision chain happens. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
