hash() yields different results for different platforms

Wed Jul 12 05:55:33 EDT 2006

>>>>> Grant Edwards <grante at visi.com> (GE) wrote:

>GE> The low 32 bits match, so perhaps you should just use that
>GE> portion of the returned hash?

If the hashed should be unique, 32 bits is much too low if you have
millions of entries.
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