Collision-resistant hashing

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "Jason" == Jason Merrill <jason at cygnus.com> writes:

    Jason> I just talked to one of our linker guys about this issue,
    Jason> and he was extremely skeptical that symbol length was
    Jason> significant to linker performance; as Christophe suggested
    Jason> at the meeting today, the linker only sees the symbol name
    Jason> when it's read in for internal hashing; after that, we're
    Jason> dealing with a pointer.

I believe that.  We came up with this idea to get around symbol-length
restrictions; in general, the win is going to be space, not time.

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