On Mar 21, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Sean Kelly" <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote in message > news:mailman.981.1332359368.4860.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >> >> 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.= > > People still use SPARC? > > /me out of the loop
Yup. Though these days it seems more common to use x86 Solaris instead, and even that subset is transitioning to Linux.