From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 12:28:27 GMT
Subject: Re: I'm a total push-over..
Message-ID: <85lk6giv4k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801231221120.5731@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> Both issues (and the config variable issue Linus raised) are easily
> helped with: store not only the hashmap in the extension, but also an
> identifier for the hash method used.

For a reasonably implemented hash algorithm, computing the hash should
be cheaper than reading it from disk.

So storing precomputed hashes is not worth the trouble.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum