Re: [PATCH 6/7] libihash: do not use an integer hash function by default

2014-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, le Mon 26 May 2014 13:19:18 +0200, a écrit : > Do not use the integer hash function on the keys by default. Ack.

[PATCH 6/7] libihash: do not use an integer hash function by default

2014-05-26 Thread Justus Winter
Recently libihash was changed to use an integer hash function on the keys in an attempt to reduce the rate of collisions (2d898893), which has long been assumed to be high. Richard Braun was kind enough to run some benchmarks. He observed: "1/ Using an extremely simple microbenchmark [1] that me