I mailed a small CL for this. It now says "uniform distribution on 64-bit integers". That should imply reduction by masking (or other methods) is fine.
https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/219340 On Sunday, February 9, 2020 at 10:52:22 AM UTC-8, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > It would be helpful if the introduction to the maphash package immediately > stated that it produces 64-bit values, and perhaps restate the fact that > the value can be safely reduced using bit masking (already there at the > Sum64 method). > > I'm not sure what is the purpose of the BlockSize method -- why is the > block size relevant to the package user? At the very least, the doc > should mention that Size is the value that the user wants. > > -- Juliusz > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/89c55493-f324-40cf-8832-e2487bb2a182%40googlegroups.com.
