From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:51:43 GMT
Subject: Re: I'm a total push-over..
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0801251250120.5731@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <87fxwmv5tf.fsf@jbms.ath.cx>

Hi,

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote:

> But since multiple hash functions will be needed anyway to support 
> different notions of case-insensitivity, if the warning is not enabled, 
> there is no reason to use a case-insensitive hash function with a 
> byte-exact comparison.

No, only multiple compare functions will be needed.  The hash function can 
be built in such a manner that it guarantees that file names being equal 
with _any_ of the compare functions fall into the same bucket.

The upside of such a hash function: less code to maintain.

Hth,
Dscho