[Spice-devel] [PATCH v2 murmur 2/2] replace lookup3 with MurmurHash3

[Søren Sandmann]

Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> writes:

> See http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/wiki/MurmurHash3
>
> Performance quotes from there are 2.5 times what lookup3 can do, for
> 32 bit variant, which is what we use:
>
> Lookup3_x86_32       - 1234 mb/sec
> Lookup3_x64_32       - 1265 mb/sec
>
> MurmurHash3_x86_32   - 3105 mb/sec
>
> New files are released to the public domain, keeping them that way.

It probably makes sense to do this, but I'd like to wait until the
options to turn caching on/off land.


Soren