emacs-devel
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: What's the specification for sxhash?


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: What's the specification for sxhash?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:45:49 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

On Jun 06 2019, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> In practice they're fairly stable across sessions, but they depend for
> example on the size of fixnums, so they're different in a 32bit build of
> Emacs and a 64bit build of Emacs.  And we don't guarantee that they
> don't change from one version to another.

For some types the hash uses the address of the object, so it is likely
to differ even between runs of the same binary.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, address@hidden
GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE  1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7
"And now for something completely different."



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]