[ircd-ratbox] nicklen modifications.

[Aaron Sethman]

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Paul-Andrew Joseph Miseiko wrote:

> Does the IRC daemon optimize the hash algorithm for changed in nick
> length?  Once again people have cried wolf for a nick length increase on
> my network from 9 to some other number; I've considered 12, 15 and
> possibly 18.  Since these are all common ratios.  Is their a
> recommendation for nick length changes and possible boundary alignment
> considerations?

Nothing in the hashing algorithm is really dependant on nicklength.  It'll
happily hash nicks of any length.

Aaron