[PATCH] DT_GNU_HASH: ~ 50% dynamic linking improvement
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Thu Jun 29 19:10:00 GMT 2006
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.
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➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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