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Re: Changes in hashing [message #54177 is a reply to message #54110]

Fri, 05 June 2020 12:28

Oblivion
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Registered: August 2007

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Hello Mirek,

I'm somewhat confused about this.

Just to be clear: Does this mean that the client code can continue to use dword GetHashValue() variant on 64-bit machines?

I'm worried because, e.g, In Terminal ctrl I use a dword hash of incoming string data as unique ID for images and hyperlinks, in each cell.
Changing it to 64-bit would be very expensive (memory consumption will be significantly higher).

Truncating 64-bit to 32-bit probably won't do too much harm here, but still, it means information loss and I'd prefer to avoid that.

Or do I have to separately maintain the 32-bit hash funtions on 64-bit confiurations?

Best regards,
Oblivion

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