Re: [clisp-list] sxhash of fixnums

[Sam S. <sd...@po...>]

> * Steven E. Harris <fru@cnavk.pbz> [2006-06-15 08:16:44 -0700]:
>
> I didn't suggest that it was violated. I was only commenting that if
> the goal of a hashing function is to produce semi-unique keys for
> different values, the keys produced by CLISP are less unique than
> those produced by the other implementations we mentioned, and hence
> warranted discussion. As I said above, being less unique doesn't
> necessarily condemn the behavior of a hash table making proper use of
> these keys. Looking at just the keys in isolation may be too narrow a
> view.

what does "less unique" mean?
please offer a sensible test (in lisp, if possible), and demonstrate
that it fails on clisp and passes on other implementations.

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