is there any reason to use SuperFastHash in druntime? (except speed)

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, 28 May 2015 12:39:52 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> On Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 03:09:07 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> SuperFastHash has known distribution problems[1].
> 
> BTW, something I noticed while browsing Rust docs today:
> 
>> The hashes are all keyed by the thread-local random number generator on
>> creation by default. This means that the ordering of the keys is
>> randomized, but makes the tables more resistant to denial-of-service
>> attacks (Hash DoS).
> 
> http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/collections/struct.HashMap.html
> 
> As I understand, D is certainly vulnerable to Hash DoS.

yes. and the interesting thing is that `toHash()` accepts seed, but it's 
not used in other code. looks to me like low-hanging fruit.
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