On Sat, Dec 18, 2021 at 2:21 AM Hao Hu <hao.hu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Great question. I agree that there could be other factors which slow things > down much more than the hash function. > I assume that this is a function that’ll be potentially called a lot of > times, and the cumulated cost won’t be negligible. > Maybe for the similar reason, some high performance networking tools adopt > the same algorithm.
Yup. It's always better to measure than to assume, though :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/ISK4YY4QEPS6QMY64HX4EBOWEV7AB3CI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
