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From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> >   Not worth it? At greater than 50 cycles, the divide is more expensive
> >than the entire add loop.
> 
> But loosing the hash entirely is >even< faster, right ?  :-)

Faster than traversing a long linked list?