Re: [PATCH] Define hash_mem in lib/hash.c to apply hash_long to an arbitraty piece of memory.

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 04:03:28PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> I did a little testing and found that on a list of 2 million 
> basenames from a recent backup index (800,000 unique):
> 
>  hash_mem (as included here) is noticably faster than HASH_HALF_MD4 or
>  HASH_TEA: 
> 
>   hash_mem:		10 seconds
>   DX_HASH_HALF_MD4:	14 seconds
>   DX_HASH_TEA:		15.2 seconds

I'm curious how the hash at
http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html would fare. He has a
64-bit version at
http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/c/lookup8.c.