• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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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      2 months ago

      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 :)