Re: [Gimp-developer] A simple (?) question...

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Author: David Gowers
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To: Torsten Neuer
CC: Sven Neumann, gimp-developer
Subject: Re: [Gimp-developer] A simple (?) question...
Hi Torsten,

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Torsten Neuer <tneuer@???> wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
>
> > On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:27 +0930, David Gowers wrote:
> > > What you are talking about is a hash function. There is a string
> > > hasher in GLib that should do what you want.
> >
> > The string hash function in GLib is not suitable for this job. Torsten
> > doesn't want to hash a string, he is asking for a checksum over image
> > data.
>
> Yes, I discovered that myself, since the string hasher would have difficulties
> with handling the binary data of the drawable passed on to the plugin.

Oh.
I had assumed that the glib string hasher worked similarly to the
Python string hasher, meaning that binary data was perfectly okay.

My mistake.
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