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From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
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Subject: Re: hash function over IP address
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:21:42 +0100
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Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> writes:
> "Mark" <mark_cruzNOTFORSPAM@hotmail.com> writes:

[...]

>> How would you suggest to concatenate 32-bit long unsigned 
>> integers, in what form -- convert to strings, concatenate and use such 
>> string as a key?
>
> I would consolidate each pair into a 64-bit integer, using 0 in place
> of a possibly-missing 'second 32-bit number' and then do 'string
> comparions' on 64-bit integer strings of some length.

Clarification: This is not supposed to refer to the C str*-library
functions but to equivalent algorithms working with 64-bit integers
instead of chars.