Re: [bailey-developers] SF.net SVN: bailey: [10] trunk/src

[Ning L. <nin...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Yonik Seeley <yo...@ap...> wrote:
>  If one wants each user in an email system to span a maximum of 1/8th
>  of the ring then the
>  hash could be hash =  (username.hashCode() << 29) | (id.hashCode() >> 3)

This could work.

>  Or if the number of emails per user is small, hash = username.hashCode()

We cannot really assume that, right? :) Let's use long for now.

Ning