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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:50:11 +0800
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To: Stefan Esser <stefan@nopiracy.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: 5.3.9, Hash DoS, release
From: laruence@gmail.com (Xinchen Hui)

Hi:
    I am not sure whether you have understood my point.

    If an array have more than 1024 buckets in an same bucket
list(same index), there must already be an performance issue.

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=E5=9C=A8 2012-1-10=EF=BC=8C0:41=EF=BC=8CStefan Esser <stefan@nopiracy.de> =
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> Hey,
>
>> That is Restricting a max length of a buckets list in a hash table.
>>
>>  If a bucket's length exceed 1024, any insertion into this bucket
>> will return failure and a warning will be generated.
>>
>>  What do you think?
>
> very bad idea. Especially when it comes to numerical indices a legitimate=
 application might put data into a big array and have legitimate colliding =
keys.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan Esser