(sorry for the repost, I use gmail and it send html mails by default).
On 22 December 2014 at 11:48, Thomas Rast wrote:
>
> 1. hash function throughput
> 2. quality of the hash values
> 3. avoiding collision attacks
>
> XDL_FAST_HASH was strictly an attempt to improve throughput, and fairly
> succ
Patrick Reynolds writes:
> The original xdl_hash_record is essentially DJB hash, which does a
> multiplication, load, and xor for each byte of the input. Commit
> 6942efc introduces an "XDL_FAST_HASH" version of the same function
> that is clearly inspired by the DJB hash, but it does only one
>
I have been working with Peff on this and have more results to share.
For background, xdl_hash_record is a hashing function, producing an
unsigned long from an input string terminated by either a newline or
the end of the mmap'd file.
The original xdl_hash_record is essentially DJB hash, which do
I ran across an interesting case that diffs very slowly with modern git.
And it's even public. You can clone:
git://github.com/outpunk/evil-icons
and try:
git show fc4efe426d5b4e6aa8d5a4dc14babeada7c5f899
(which is also the tip of master as of this writing).
The interesting file there is a
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