Three Unlikely Successful Features of D

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Wed Mar 21 14:34:43 PDT 2012


On Mar 21, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> "Sean Kelly" <sean at invisibleduck.org> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.981.1332359368.4860.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>> 
>> Druntime actually did use MurmurHash for a while and
>> then dropped it because the site had no copyright license
>> for the code (a mistake that has since been rectified).  I'd
>> consider switching back, though I don't really like that
>> MurmurHash has a number of separate implementations
>> targeted at different platforms, each having different
>> performance characteristics.  It's 4x faster than SuperFastHash
>> on x86 but 10x slower than SuperFastHash on SPARC,
>> for example.=
> 
> People still use SPARC?
> 
> /me out of the loop

Yup.  Though these days it seems more common to use x86 Solaris instead, and even that subset is transitioning to Linux.


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