Re: It jerked and it berked but the thing really worked!

[silky <michaelslists () gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Halvar Flake <halvar () gmx de> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> no offense Dave, but a Java or C# implementation of a hash function is
> for most purposes useless. Hash functions are used in a lot of environments where
> interpreters for Java or C# are not available (nor desirable), and such
> code would make performance evaluations unnecessarily difficult.

I agree, I think having the reference implementations published in a
language closer to what they will (typically) be written in is good
anyway. Consider that had they been written in C#, with no buffer
overflows to worry about, someone will privately convert that to C,
and probably make a mistake. But this time, it won't be public.

At least in the current case, the flaws are public to all and can be
fixed - and known to be fixed - to all. Far more helpful.

Safer to translate from C to C# than the other way round. At least if
you go up you're probably less and less concerned about performance.

-- 
noon silky
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