On 9/17/07, Facundo Batista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the Tracker Issue... > > http://bugs.python.org/issue1772851 > > ... Mark Dickinson came with a patch that alters in a very corner case > how the hash is calculated to a long integer. >
Much as I'd like this patch to be applied, I feel compelled to point out that it does have a significant(?) downside: it slows down hashing of large integers to some degree. On my machine (Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz/SuSE Linux 10.2/gcc 4.1 with -O3), using timeit.timeit('hash(n)') to get timings, the new hash function takes 70% more time for 1000 digit integers, 20% longer for 100 digit integers, but has no measurable performance impact for small (int-sized) longs. I don't know how significant this performance hit is in the larger scheme of things. Mark
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