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		wolfgang42 73 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cdb: Add support for cdb64 Yes, the modifications you need to support it are trivially obvious (literally just replace “4 bytes” with “8 bytes” everywhere in the spec) and have been implemented by a number of authors, some of which this page links to. I guess it’s nice that they’ve been “officially” acknowledged, though.

eesmith 72 days ago [–]

And update the hash algorithm, yes?

eesmith 72 days ago | [–]

In answer to my own question, no, except for the trivial expansion to 64-bits. https://cdb.cr.yp.to/cdb-20251021/cdb_hash.c.html with constants at https://cdb.cr.yp.to/cdb-20251021/cdb.h.html .

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