Re: [boost] [optional] operator<(optional<T>, T) -- is it wrong?

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Gottlob Frege wrote:

On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Gavin Lambert wrote:

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On 29/11/2014 08:01, Gottlob Frege wrote:

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There are still reasons to use std::map over unordered_map. Lack of a cryptographically safe hash is one of them. There are others (that I've forgotten, but I've asked the same question to committee members before, and there were a few reasons that sounded valid to me.)

Why should the lack of a cryptographically safe hash matter when you are not doing cryptography?

It doesn't really matter what hash is used in internal data structures. (Although obviously there are desirable properties such as having uniform spread to minimise bucket collisions and improve lookup speed.)

Denial of Service attack - I carefully force the input data such that the hashes collide and you get worse-case hash-table performance. This is a real attack. Python and a few other languages have already fixed their hashes, we have not.

True, but maps suffer from the same problem don't they? Is a fix even available for maps? -- Olaf