The cr.yp.to microblog: 2011.12.30 15:24:48

2011.12.30 15:24:48 (152757030631907328) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "Jason Miller (@Aidenn0)" (152260134272385024):

@Aidenn0 No. Crit-bit trees keep many top layers in cache, and standard "clustering" tricks make the bottom layers cache-friendly too.

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2011.12.28 17:59:11 (152071106919014401) from Daniel J. Bernstein:

The ultimate solution to #hashflooding: language/library designers should switch to crit-bit trees. http://cr.yp.to/critbit.html

2011.12.29 06:30:19 (152260134272385024) from "Jason Miller (@Aidenn0)":

@hashbreaker crit-bit trees are very cache unfriendly; isn't some sort of randomized hash going to do better?