Re: Perfect hash function generator

[Mindaugas Rasiukevicius <rmind%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> It is not the fastest hash if used standalone. It does ensure that you
> can get up to three different results with a single pass over the data,
> which makes compete with MurmurHash2.

Do you have any numbers?

> > Sounds good, just do we really need this in the base? I think pkgsrc would
> > be a better place.
> 
> I think the tools used to generate functions in base should be in base
> as well.

It is quite specific tool, not really a general purpose functionality.
Sure it is small, but just breaks the principle to keep base minimal.

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Mindaugas