• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      23 天前

      It’s not. PHP used to use the function length as hash buckets, so by having evenly distributed lengths the execution time was faster. No idea where GP came up with that.

      • racemaniac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        GP specifically talked about the first version of PHP, sounds like it was just a dummy implementation as they were working on PHP, that then later got replaced with a proper implementation :)