Re: Object hash (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-rev-size: calculate sizes of repository)
- From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
- Date
- Aug 20, 2006, 18:47 UTC
- Message-ID
- <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608202047010.28360@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
- In-Reply-To
- <200608202041.19644.Josef.Weidendorfer@gmx.de>
Hi,
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Josef Weidendorfer wrote:
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> On Sunday 20 August 2006 18:51, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > > > +void hash_put(struct hash_map *hash, struct object *obj)
> > > > +{
> > > > + if (++hash->nr > hash->alloc / 2)
> > > > + grow_hash(hash);
> > >
> > > If you insert the same object multiple times, hash->nr will get too big.
> >
> > First, you cannot put the same object multiple times. That is not what a
> > hash does (at least in this case): it stores unique objects (identified by
> > their sha1 in this case).
>
> I put it the wrong way; I should have said "if you call hash_put() multiple
> times with the same object". You get the same index, and nothing should
> change. However, you still increment hash->nr, but this error is not really
> important as you correct it in grow_hash().Talk about unintended side effects ;-)
Ciao, Dscho