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		_tom_ 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strings Just Got Faster Off-the-cuff thought: Could you solve the empty string hashes to zero problem by just adding one when computing hash codes?

Karellen 3 months ago | [–]

But then strings with the hash code HASH_MAX would wrap to 0 instead.

layer8 3 months ago | [–]

You could, but that would break backwards compatibility.

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