>>We accidentally a whole hash function… but we had a good reason!
I think they missed a couple of words and meant to say that they "accidentally created a whole new hash function", but I can't be sure. UMASH was designed after Backtrace evaluated various existing hash functions and realized that none quite fit the specialized "fingerprinting" caching use-case.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 19.1 ms ] threadI think they missed a couple of words and meant to say that they "accidentally created a whole new hash function", but I can't be sure. UMASH was designed after Backtrace evaluated various existing hash functions and realized that none quite fit the specialized "fingerprinting" caching use-case.
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