On 9/4/07, Thomas Hunger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I don't know much about python internals, so the following might be > bogus: > > I replaced unicode_hash and string_hash with the hash function from > here: http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/hash.html. > > Then I ran the following micro-benchmark : > > $ time ./python bench.py > > where bech.py is: > > f = dict((line, nr) for nr, line > in enumerate(open('/usr/share/dict/words', > encoding='latin1').readlines())) > > Python3k original hash: real 0m2.210s > new hash: real 0m1.842s > > So maybe this is an interesting hash function? > > Tom
Sounds like a great idea to me. Can you submit it as a patch? We should run some more realistic perf tests and profiles but I imagine the impact will only be good. -gps
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