Re: [PHP-DEV] SipHash

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 10:07 +0200, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Am 28.08.2014 um 10:04 schrieb Pierre Joye:
> > ext/hash can have it anyway. I did not look at it if it makes sense to
> > use it in other parts.
> 
>  Sorry for not bein more clear: yes, I was thinking about adding it to
>  ext/hash, of course. It might make sense, though, to evaluate whether
>  it can also be used internally. Other languages seem to have switched
>  their hashtable implementation to SipHash.

Try it out. Mind that we are doing quite few more hash operations than
other languages. I doubt barely anybody here has the maths background to
predict impact on hash calculation performance and conflict ratio and
even then only a test and analysis of different benchmarks will tell the
truth.

johannes