Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > ... (if we were to do so, it might be more efficient to > shift in from the right instead of left end of the base and hash > accumulators in the loop and then swap the whole resulting word at > the end). That is garbage. We could do the "shift in from the right and then reverse the result" for the hash accumulator, but not the "base" one. Sorry for the noise.