I’m behind the times, still using FNV in my projects … didn’t realize it’s such a tortoise!
I wonder if there’s a comparable implementation in C/C++? (I know I could use FFI to call ahash from those languages, but that would mean adding a Rust compiler to our tool chain, which the build team would probably frown on.)
Another nice thing about ahash is that unlike the built-in default hash function in Rust, you can explicitly seed its randomness, which is useful for reproducible benchmarking with e.g. Cachegrind.
This is impressive enough, that I’ll consider switching in my toy project (an IRC bot that is storing lots of data in a hashset for deduplication). Coming to think of it, the raspberry pi it’s running on probably doesn’t have hardware support for AES-NI though..
I’m behind the times, still using FNV in my projects … didn’t realize it’s such a tortoise!
I wonder if there’s a comparable implementation in C/C++? (I know I could use FFI to call ahash from those languages, but that would mean adding a Rust compiler to our tool chain, which the build team would probably frown on.)
FFI would also add some overhead, unless you can manage cross-language LTO (I think I’ve succeeded doing that for C, following these instructions: https://matklad.github.io/2020/10/03/fast-thread-locals-in-rust.html.)
Another nice thing about ahash is that unlike the built-in default hash function in Rust, you can explicitly seed its randomness, which is useful for reproducible benchmarking with e.g. Cachegrind.
This is impressive enough, that I’ll consider switching in my toy project (an IRC bot that is storing lots of data in a hashset for deduplication). Coming to think of it, the raspberry pi it’s running on probably doesn’t have hardware support for AES-NI though..
When I switched I saw performance improvements even when I compiled without AES (on x86_64, though, so may differ for you).