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Dave Korn wrote:

>   There are only 1024 possible image bases to choose from, and any DLL >=
> 256kB in size will span several of them.  Collisions are an inevitability,
> no?   I think we'll probably still have a need for rebase until the whole
> world goes 64bit and we've got room for a few more hash buckets[*].

If the hash function is poor then don't you think it would make more
sense to try to improve it to avoid collisions than to perpetuate this
backwater hack of having to rebaseall over and over?

Brian

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