On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2012-03-21 20:49, Sean Kelly wrote: > >> Druntime actually did use MurmurHash for a while and then dropped it because >> the site had no copyright license for the code (a mistake that has since >> been rectified). I'd consider switching back, though I don't really like >> that MurmurHash has a number of separate implementations targeted at >> different platforms, each having different performance characteristics. >> It's 4x faster than SuperFastHash on x86 but 10x slower than SuperFastHash >> on SPARC, for example. > > Would it be possible to use different algorithms on different platforms?
Depends whether there's any reason to have different platforms attempt to generate the same hash for a given input.
