So it is clear that Digest::JHash has a problem in that it doesnt faithfully reproduce lookup2.c like it thinks it does. I think i should report my findings to them.

But should they "fix" it? If they do, the new version while now returning the results lookup2.c does will no longer always return the same results 0.10 did. This would be a huge problem to users of the module, some of their hashs have now changed.

In thinking about it, i dont think the negative rather than positive additions of the chars makes it "less hashy", just differnt from lookup2.c.

What would you do if faced with this dilemma?

In reply to [Digest::JHash problem] Pure perl Jenkins 32 bit Hash by huck
in thread Pure perl Jenkins 32 bit Hash by huck

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