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Subject: Re: Is there an advantage for using unsigned 64 bit integers for hash?

Author: Rick Bischoff

Date: 07:51:19 09/11/03

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>It _does_ make a difference for shift right (x>>y).
>Often unsigned operands are faster.  Of course, it depends (compiler etc).

My mistake :-);  I assumed right shift was only a useful binary operation, but I
can see now that it makes sense to maintain the sign during division.

Thanks,
Rick



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