[plt-scheme] eq-hash-code

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 8 08:07:32 EDT 2008

At Tue, 7 Oct 2008 20:58:43 -0700, "Mark Engelberg" wrote:
> If you don't care about the value fitting into a
> fixnum, is there any way to generate a hash code that is guaranteed to
> be unique?

No. The amount of available information fits into a fixnum anyway.

>  For example, does Scheme have some sort of internal
> "address" of each allocation that stays consistent even when 3m
> actually moves around the objects in real memory? 

Not other than the hash code.


Matthew



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