Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Other than that, the patch looks fine to me; x ^= x >> 4 would be fine > too.
I've just tried x ^= x >> 4 and the speedup is smaller on our microbenchmark (time_object_hash.py). I conjecture that trying to maintain the sequentiality of adresses may have beneficial cache locality effects. Should we care? _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5186> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
