Frank Mittelbach <[log in to unmask]> writes:

> Am 22.06.18 um 09:16 schrieb Will Robertson:
>> On 22 Jun 2018, at 5:54 am, David Kastrup<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>> A stupid question that just occured to me: should we be discouraging
>>> registering prefixes that match another prefix' contribution to the
>>> overly simplistic hash function used in almost all TeX engines?
>> Would it be easier to update the hash function in the engines?:)
>> What would be the easiest way to test for clashes?
>
> No change I would think, but does it really matter in all honesty?

For stuff like LT@<number> you already sort 1000 numbers into something
like 200 hash buckets (don't remember the exact ratio: it was different
with roman numerals but not all that much better IIRC).  If somebody
then uses a similar indexing scheme for MR@<number>, he'll share exactly
the same hash buckets.

I thought I wrote some Elisp code evaluating this kind of thing ages ago
but cannot find it on my current disk.

-- 
David Kastrup