[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.

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

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