[Swift-devel] Clustering and Temp Dirs with Swift

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 22:21 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 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.

Hmm. Yes. Make up your minds!

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