On 01/12/2017 02:19 PM, Richard Levitte wrote: > In message <f1c135a2-ebb4-bbc0-8ac0-9e81928b4...@akamai.com> on Thu, 12 Jan > 2017 14:07:54 -0600, Benjamin Kaduk <bka...@akamai.com> said: > > bkaduk> On 01/11/2017 08:43 AM, Richard Levitte wrote: > bkaduk> > bkaduk> A note: I have absolutely nothing against the addition of SIPhash > in > bkaduk> our collection of hash algos. My scepticism was only in regards > to > bkaduk> using it as a string hasher for our hash tables indexes. > bkaduk> > bkaduk> Understood. Can you further clarify whether you would like to maintain > bkaduk> the existing 20-year-old hand-rolled hash function for that purpose or > bkaduk> are open to using a more modern hash (not necessarily SIPhash; there > bkaduk> are also things like the Jenkins hash to consider)? > > If it makes sense, yes. I found SMhasher (*) and started playing with > it for this very purpose. Just for kicks, I added OPENSSL_LH_strhash_ex > to it and am currently doing a huge run of all hashes it knows. > > I did a test with Google's FarmHash, and that one shows promise, speed > wise (it performs twice as fast as OPENSSL_LH_strhash_ex). >
Cool! I look forward to seeing the results :) -Ben
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