[Swift-devel] Clustering and Temp Dirs with Swift

[Ben Clifford]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Mihael Hategan wrote:

> > Why are these jobnames differing in the leftmost character of the uuid 
> > instead of the rightmost? I never paid attention to this till I started 
> > thinking about the dir hashing Ben suggests. I think that most hashes, 
> > unless the file names are random, need to be aware of which end of the 
> > name is varying fastest.
> 
> Hmm. Yes. Never occurred to me. It can be changed.

Though leftmost scoring is (very slightly) easier for prefix-hashing.

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