New hash

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/23/12 10:47 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 3/24/12, Andrej Mitrovic<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> snip
>
> I've managed to test the hashes on a small-sized closed-source project
> (9K lines) which used hashes a lot. I've found no issues so far (no
> memory corruption or anything). Performance did drop a bit from
> 812msecs to 898msecs. I can't extensively test this yet because I
> can't serialize the hashes (a serialization library doesn't want to
> work with the new hashes but I'll fix that) and so I need a 30second
> run that first fills the hashes before doing work on them. But it does
> seem to be a tiny bit slower.

I wonder what the matter is. What hashing function does the new hash 
use? Let me reiterate the suggestion that different hash algorithms are 
used depending on the string length.


Andrei