On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Jon Sigman wrote: > Okay, I'm thoroughly confused now. What exactly is this hash value? The > documentation just says its "an integer that can be used as a table address > in a > hash table structure." That doesn't mean much to me.
I would recommend that you read up on Hash Tables if you want all the glory details on what a hash value is. The short of it is that its a value that allows you to quickly tell if something is worth looking at more closely for equality. As a real world example a hash code is equivalent to saying "this object is short, this object is tall" without breaking out a ruler to determine if they are the same length. -- David Duncan _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
