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Unsafely fast hashing algorithm 📈

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 4 comments · first 2023-11-07 · latest 2024-07-29

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  1. There's a debate on how unsafe/unsound this technique actually is. https://github.com/ogxd/gxhash/issues/82 I definitely see the conundrum since the dangerous code is such a huge performance gain.
    comment by slaymaker1907 · 2024-07-29 · in tolower() with AVX-512
  2. …leading to results you don’t expect. The only way around this is to use inline assembly. https://github.com/ogxd/gxhash/issues/82
    comment by anderskaseorg · 2024-07-29 · in tolower() with AVX-512
  3. Probably in response to https://github.com/ogxd/gxhash/issues/25 ?
  4. …function. Does anyone want to follow up and see if they can extend the attacks I describe[1]? [1] https://github.com/ogxd/gxhash/issues/25
  5. ▲ 87
    GxHash is a fast and robust non-cryptographic hashing algorithm
    story by vlovich123 · 2024-05-13 · 61 comments
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    GxHash: The fastest non-cryptographic hashing algorithm [pdf]
    story by ogxd · 2023-11-07 · 1 comment