Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] include: add xxhash.h

2016-04-06 Thread Emilio G. Cota
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 12:39:42 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Emilio G. Cota writes: > > > xxhash is a fast, high-quality hashing function. The appended > > brings in the 32-bit version of it, with the small modification that > > it assumes the data to be hashed is made of 32-bit chunks; this i

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] include: add xxhash.h

2016-04-06 Thread Alex Bennée
Emilio G. Cota writes: > xxhash is a fast, high-quality hashing function. The appended > brings in the 32-bit version of it, with the small modification that > it assumes the data to be hashed is made of 32-bit chunks; this increases > speed slightly for the use-case we care about, i.e. tb-hash.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/10] include: add xxhash.h

2016-04-04 Thread Emilio G. Cota
xxhash is a fast, high-quality hashing function. The appended brings in the 32-bit version of it, with the small modification that it assumes the data to be hashed is made of 32-bit chunks; this increases speed slightly for the use-case we care about, i.e. tb-hash. The original algorithm, as well