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Re: [PATCH] DT_GNU_HASH: ~ 50% dynamic linking improvement


Paul Eggert wrote:
> One other (perhaps dumb) question: why limit yourself to a 32-bit hash
> on machines with 64-bit addresses?

Waste of space.  Not only on disk, especially on memory.  The goal is to
have the entire chain in a cache line.  We have already good results
with 32 bits, wasting that space is simply not worth it.

-- 
â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â

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