Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> The lenght of these hashes is coming directly from the algo we use
>>> (md5), I think collision is really not an issue so we can easlily short
>>> these.
>> A non-cryptographic 32-bit hash (64-bit if you are paranoid) should do
>> fine.
>
> We can also use base64 encoding instead of hex, so as to pack 50% more
> bits per byte.

That looks like a good idea until you take into account case-insensitive
file systems.