Christian Heimes added the comment: Thanks to Snakebit I was able to tests the code on a 32bit BSD installation with GCC 4.2. The ASCII unicode and bytes performance is about 8% slower, UCS2 unicode is about 37% slower. There might be room for improvements, though.
% ./python -m timeit -r20 -n1000000 -s "h = hash; x = 'a' * 10**7" -- "h(x)" Current: 1000000 loops, best of 20: 0.109 usec per loop SipHash: 1000000 loops, best of 20: 0.118 usec per loop % ./python -m timeit -r20 -n1000000 -s "h = hash; x = 'รค' * 10**7" -- "h(x)" Current: 1000000 loops, best of 20: 0.119 usec per loop SipHash: 1000000 loops, best of 20: 0.163 usec per loop ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue14621> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
