Re: hashing a symbol before looking into a hashed table

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gerald stoller wrote: > I've been looking at the source code for FreeBSD 3.3 and i noticed that a > table-lookUp is called and given the name to look-up and also its hashed > value. Why is the hashed value supplied, why should the caller even be > aware of it (this

hashing a symbol before looking into a hashed table

I've been looking at the source code for FreeBSD 3.3 and i noticed that a table-lookUp is called and given the name to look-up and also its hashed value. Why is the hashed value supplied, why should the caller even be aware of it (this is strictly internal to the table-lookUp)? Even if th