Data.HashTable.hashInt seems somewhat sub-optimal

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Tue Aug 21 10:03:38 EDT 2007


On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:49:59PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> Simon.Frankau at barclayscapital.com wrote:
> >I tried submitting this bug through the tracker, but it seemed to give
> >me permissions errors - probably a firewall issue here. :( Apologies.
> >Anyway...
> >
> >Prelude> Data.HashTable.hashInt 0
> >0
> >Prelude> Data.HashTable.hashInt 1
> >-1
> >Prelude> Data.HashTable.hashInt 2
> >-1
> 
> FYI, this was a bug that has since been fixed.

It doesn't look fixed to me. Are you confusing it with
    http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1137
(poor hashString results)?


Thanks
Ian



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