petdance/scratch — Issue #677: Investigate using an external hash library
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-01 05:36:34+00:00
State: open
Labels: library, Pri-minor, rfc, Sev-low

We spend a lot of cycles on our hand-rolled hashing, both in terms of developer effort and CPU.

It would be nice if we could use an off the shelf hash package.

Any package under consideration would have to have a compatible license, and work on our minimal core platforms.
Trac ID #61