Re: scm_string_hash suboptimal?

[Rob Browning]

Florian Weimer <address@hidden> writes:

> The table is 1K in size, so there's a danger that it pollutes the data
> cache.  The Python hash function doesn't have this problem, and the
> integer multiplication shouldn't matter on modern architectures.

Makes sense.

> I think you have to do a bit of testing using real-world applications
> in order to decide which hash function to use.

Definitely.  I just brought it up for comparison.  I tried to find one
in stalin (briefly), but didn't see anything obvious (i.e. grepped for
"hash").  Might be that it doesn't need any.

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