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From: "sebastien FURIC" <sebastien.furic@tni-valiosys.com>
To: OCaml Mailing list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Hashtbl.hash and Hashtbl.hash_param
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:45:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D665886.9CF7E626@tni.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D6653C0.F895EC59@tni.fr>



sebastien FURIC a écrit :
> 
>  What kind of algorithm is used to compute the hash code of objects in
> O'Caml ?
> 
>  Hashtbl.hash (List.map (fun x -> Random.int 100)
> [1;2;3;4;5;6;7;8;9;10]);;
>  always returns 0 (Hashtbl.hash_param has the same properties) which is
> a poor result !
> 
>  What can I do if I don't know the size of the list in advance ?

 Of course, I know I could use functors to specify my own hash function.
 While prototyping I just would prefer an acceptable Hashtbl.hash
function to avoid writing "boring" code.

 Sebastien.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-23 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-23 15:24 sebastien FURIC
2002-08-23 15:45 ` sebastien FURIC [this message]
2002-08-23 16:27   ` Florian Douetteau
2002-08-27  8:24 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-08-27  9:59   ` jeanmarc.eber
2002-08-27 10:58     ` Alain Frisch
2002-08-27 16:12   ` Blair Zajac

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