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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1999-07-17 16:34:09 +0000 |
| commit | 87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876 (patch) | |
| tree | 3f8e18dd43f70fe33e25ec58f37ac2a0bea79a51 /pod/perlguts.pod | |
| parent | fa9c2ea87c89382fe822598450654e31bdb24ee0 (diff) | |
| download | perl-87275199ef473a0bd08ce6f46db30d4d432f4876.tar.gz | |
pod fixes (with minor edits) from Abigail, Ronald Kimball, Jon
Waddington, Tuomas Lukka, Steven Tolkin, Ian Phillipps, and
Steve Lidie
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@3676
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlguts.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlguts.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlguts.pod b/pod/perlguts.pod index 2c6d3a2e75..f297560b19 100644 --- a/pod/perlguts.pod +++ b/pod/perlguts.pod @@ -366,9 +366,9 @@ The hash algorithm is defined in the C<PERL_HASH(hash, key, klen)> macro: hash = 0; while (klen--) hash = (hash * 33) + *key++; - hash = hash + (hash >> 5); /* after 5.006 */ + hash = hash + (hash >> 5); /* after 5.6 */ -The last step was added in version 5.006 to improve distribution of +The last step was added in version 5.6 to improve distribution of lower bits in the resulting hash value. See L<Understanding the Magic of Tied Hashes and Arrays> for more |