Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

[Martin Nowak]

> It's probably far too early to think about this with all the other
> important issues you're addressing but have you given much thought to
> improving the hashing function?  I haven't hit any issues with the speed  
> of
> the current hasher but better performance is always welcome. MurmurHash
> seems to be all the rage these days with a lot of languages and systems
> adopting it <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurmurHash> (it compiles down  
> to
> ~52 instructions on x86). It'd be interesting to see benchmarks with it.
> I'm not sure where the current hashing function lives to see what it's  
> like.
>
> Regards,
> Brad Anderson

More throughput but higher latency.
http://codepad.org/kCVQ8eoq
Murmurhash was a little slower than CityHash but
both are a little expensive for very few bytes.