Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency

[Jon Bright]

J C Lawrence wrote:
> I currently work for a group of computational statisticians at a large
> pharma corp.  We've been using BitKeeper happily for some projects and
> are now looking for a replacement.  On discussion of Monotone's use of
> hashes, the detection and handling of collisions was their first
> question and concern, and at this point may be a large enough point to
> push them elsewhere.  I don't consider my concerns unjustified.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree - I do consider them 
unjustified.  I'm surprised that statisticians don't see this the same way.

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Jon Bright
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