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From: Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Good hash for pointers
Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 19:58:31 +0100
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On 25/05/2024 23:42, bart wrote:
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> It's not clear to me what the hashing is for on the nodes. What exactly 
> is the input being looked up, and what is being compared? Because 
> something sounds off: you don't normally look up a pointer to try and 
> find it in a table; you already have the pointer pointing at the data!

This.

Are you really hashing the pointer?