On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Adam Funk wrote:
> I've also used hashes of strings for other things involving
> deduplication or fast lookups (because integer equality is faster than
> string equality). I guess if it's just for deduplication, though, a
> set of byte arrays is as good as a set o
On 2014-05-22, Peter Otten wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>> Well, J*v* returns a byte array, so I used to do this:
>>
>> digester = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
>> ...
>> digester.reset();
>> byte[] digest = digester.digest(bytes);
>> return new BigInteger(+1, digest);
>
> I
