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A comment on Fibonacci Hashing: The Optimization That the World Forgot. Parent comment
You assume that you know the seed or can directly observe the output, which is rare in practice.
> upper bits of a hash function are always superior to the lower bits
Why is that? The identity hash for ints is quite common. And for good hashes, the difference should be negligible.
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You assume that you know the seed or can directly observe the output, which is rare in practice.
> upper bits of a hash function are always superior to the lower bits
Why is that? The identity hash for ints is quite common. And for good hashes, the difference should be negligible.