On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 09:02 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > You might like this article: > > > > http://valerieaurora.org/review/hash.html > > That article makes my point pretty well. > > > I'm willing to accept the miniscule probability of a collision. If you > > aren't, I have some other windmills for you to tilt at. > > I am not willing to silently accept anything with a nonzero probability of > failure on perfect hardware. Any such algorithm is just incorrect. If you want to talk about correctness of algorithms, there is a notion of "negligible" (less than inverse polynomial) probability of failure that can be used. In the real world, you are not doing yourself any measurable good by professing to go after this risk which is orders of magnitude smaller than all the others you face every day. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
