perfect_hash.py
Ilan Schnell <ilanschnell@gmail.com>, 2008
Generate a minimal perfect hash function for the keys in a file,
desired hash values may be specified within this file as well.
A given code template is filled with parameters, such that the
output is code which implements the hash function.
Templates can easily be constructed for any programming language.
The code is based on an a program A.M. Kuchling wrote:
http://www.amk.ca/python/code/perfect-hash
The algorithm the program uses is described in the paper
'Optimal algorithms for minimal perfect hashing',
Z. J. Czech, G. Havas and B.S. Majewski.
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/122364.html
Content:
perfect_hash.py The actual program, try $ ./perfect_hash.py animals.txt
doc HTML and plain text documentation
example1-C An example which shows how to generate a C program
which implements a perfect hash table.
example2-C Another example in C.
example-C++ In this C++ example, a class is used to define the
interface to a static lookup table.
example-PyModule A lookup table in implemented as a C extension module
for Python.
example-Python Some small Python programs which show how to access
some functions and classes in perfect_hash.py directly,
i.e. using perfect_hash has a Python module, rather
than a standalone program.
graph A small program `py2dot' which converts the default python
output code from perfect_hash.py into a .dot-file which
can be used by Graphviz (see http://www.graphviz.org/) to
create a picture of the graph.
run Runs some tests.
