Shiro Kawai scripsit:

> Doesn't necessarily a paranoid; suppose a long running server that
> detects some hashtables behaving poorly and wants to switch
> hash strategy and rehash that particular table.

Thanks, that's a better use case.  The question is how to formalize
the notion, given that hash functions can be called outside any hash
table, of setting the hash salt "for a given hash table", and what
it means (if anything) to invoke hash-salt outside the context of a
hash function.

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