Re: [PATCH] Update jhash.h with the new version of Jenkins' hash

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Thursday 2009-02-12 01:29, David Miller wrote:
>
>> (double)0xdeadbeef/((unsigned long long)1 << 32) is a rather poor
>> approximation of (sqrt(5)-1)/2. If this value which is not the
>> golden ratio is arbitrary, calling it something different from
>> JHASH_GOLDEN_RATIO would surprise the code's readers much less.
>
>Then we can change the name, whatever...
>
>But really, anyone truly interested will read the friggin' web site
>where all the design documents and hash test results live.

Why should we use deadbeef over golden_ratio anyway? It's just a
random constant. And I'd take the gold over beef anytime ;-)
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