[infinispan-dev] Hash functions

[Jason T. Greene]

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.
> 

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