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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2005-05-19 13:22:11
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> The good thing is that the checksum doesn't need to be very good, since > false collisions will only cause extra translations to be executed. > Something incredibly simple like adding up each byte of code (modulo 256) > might be good enough. Are you sure? If the checksum concludes incorrectly that the new code is the same as the old code, then we are hosed :-) [i think] So in fact I'd really prefer a 64-bit checksum if possible. J |