
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> wrote in message news:000901c52580$359f96a0$6601a8c0@pdimov... | Simplistic benchmarks can't be used to evaluate the performance of a | component; it should be benchmarked in its usual role. right. I just stumpled about this parag. : " Update(1): David C. wrote: I tested your hash function against all of the popular ones, including Bob Burtles. It turns out it was not only the quickest but had the best distribution (I created histograms of the chain lengths). The architecture I work on is IBM Z/OS (S/390 mainframes). Well done mate, will be using your code from now on! Ok, not exactly RISC, but at least this demonstrates that this function is good beyond the x86 architecture. " from http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/hash.html -Thorsten