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Drew Kutcharian commented on CASSANDRA-3772:
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It probably wouldn't be such a bad idea to also evaluate CityHash which is
expected to be even faster than Murmur.
http://code.google.com/p/cityhash/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CityHash
> Evaluate Murmur3-based partitioner
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> Key: CASSANDRA-3772
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3772
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
> Fix For: 1.2
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> MD5 is a relatively heavyweight hash to use when we don't need cryptographic
> qualities, just a good output distribution. Let's see how much overhead we
> can save by using Murmur3 instead.
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