Re: [infinispan-dev] Hash functions

Jason T. Greene wrote: > Manik Surtani wrote: >> On 29 Mar 2010, at 10:30, Galder Zamarreno wrote: >> >>> Manik, >>> >>> If String's are dealt with by calling String.getBytes() which in >>> turns gets processed as a byte[], why is there such a big >>> difference SuperFastHash String speed and MurmurHash2 String speed >>> (162 ms vs 56 ms) but there's hardly any difference between the >>> byte[] tests (29ms vs 40ms) ? >> >> No idea. Microbenchmarks are notoriously fickle though, I will try >> and run this again over a larger sample size to smooth things out a bit. >> > > UTF-8 encoding. It has a cost. > ^ measurable