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Re: Note on choosing string hash functions
On 11/28/2017 03:13 PM, Dmitry Antipov wrote:
> On 11/28/2017 03:00 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
>
>> Anyway, this is just a brain dump from a little investigation I did
>> this past
>> weekend, and I think that this area has a lot of scope for
>> improvements, but
>> I won't be able to follow up on any of this myself in the next following
>> weeks at least, with several gdb 8.1 issues on my platе.
>
> Just for the record, I have a brain dump around this area too :-).
> Instead of
> optimizing htab_hash_string itself, we can try to reduce number of calls
> (and
> drop a few calls to strcmp as well if lucky):
Oh, that does sound like a good idea indeed.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves