On Thursday 2009-02-12 01:29, David Miller wrote: > >> (double)0xdeadbeef/((unsigned long long)1 << 32) is a rather poor >> approximation of (sqrt(5)-1)/2. If this value which is not the >> golden ratio is arbitrary, calling it something different from >> JHASH_GOLDEN_RATIO would surprise the code's readers much less. > >Then we can change the name, whatever... > >But really, anyone truly interested will read the friggin' web site >where all the design documents and hash test results live. Why should we use deadbeef over golden_ratio anyway? It's just a random constant. And I'd take the gold over beef anytime ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
