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A hash function is any algorithm that maps data of arbitrary length to data of a fixed length. The values returned by a hash function are called hash values, hash codes, hash sums, checksums or simply hashes. From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function

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How do i speedily traverse a file system while extracting/extrapolating various data and pro...

I'm working on a system file scanner that reveals info about various files (e.g. size, last used, duplicates, etc). Currently I'm traversing the file system once just to get a good measure of the fil …
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