On 4 July 2016 at 7:27:47 PM, Skip Montanaro (skip.montan...@gmail.com) wrote:
Hashing it probably wouldn't work, too great a chance for collisions. If the string is ASCII, you can always interpret the bytes as part of an 8 byte integer. Or, you can map unique values to consecutive integers.
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