Re: 2.2.6_andrea2.bz2

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Wed, 5 May 1999 11:03:47 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 5 May 1999, Erik Corry wrote:
> > reasonable overall results. worst-case isn't something you need to be
> > concerned about unless your hash function is unavoidably terrible.
>
> Or unless your hash function is somewhere accessible to
> black-hats (eg. in the networking code), and the worst
> case is so bad it can be used for a DOS attack.

agreed -- if worst-case needs to be avoided at all costs, then don't use a
hash table.

- Chuck Lever

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