Richard richardbp at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 19:50:28 EST 2012

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These URL ID's would just be used internally for quick lookups, not exposed publicly in a web application.

Ideally I would want to avoid collisions altogether. But if that means significant extra CPU time then 1 collision in 10 million hashes would be tolerable.

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