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by arethuza 3551 days ago
Wasn't an early version really broken - where it only looked at the first N characters of a string when hashing it? Where N was actually pretty low.
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Perhaps, but it made sense with 16MB RAM and 486 CPU. Current implementation uses 31 multiplier which is useless over 1M entries. This problem is also in Arrays.hash*() and many other places.