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[Question] What methods are cross-platform

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Sorry if I asked a dumb question. From all methods supported, is there a list of methods that are cross-platform reproducible? The conditions include: * On different CPU arch (x86,...

dipterix

Consider meow

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Cf https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash > ## How fast is it? > It’s the fastest hash function we know of, and we have benchmarked all the ones we could find. On modern Intel...

eddelbuettel

Consider FarmHash

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See e.g. [initial tweet](https://twitter.com/johnmsheffield/status/1418198759180230661), [my reply](https://twitter.com/eddelbuettel/status/1418203312982212608), [add-hoc repo](https://github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppfarmhash) and [upstream repo](https://github.com/google/farmhash). May need to think how to cast it into the (generally `char*`) result framework here. /cc @sheffe

eddelbuettel

See https://engineering.backtrace.io/2020-08-24-umash-fast-enough-almost-universal-fingerprinting/

eddelbuettel

Should NaN be different than NA?

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The title really says the issue. This would apply for num2hex.

billdenney

Classes that sha1() should have methods for in digest

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- Date - complex - array

ThierryO

Claims 5 to 20% faster than xxHash and MetroHash ... but is in Rust https://github.com/ticki/tfs/tree/master/seahash

eddelbuettel

Consider MetroHash

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- Nice [blog post about it](http://www.jandrewrogers.com/2015/05/27/metrohash/) - [Github repo](https://github.com/jandrewrogers/MetroHash)

eddelbuettel

[Experiment] Investigate meow, digest benchmarks

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I had a look at meow (see #173) as a possible hacktoberfest contribution, but it did not go as planned. This PR is a minimal working example of meow (no...

nx10

encapsulate and expose core hashing algorithms

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This draft shows the notional extraction of the core hashing capability in prep for exposing the algorithms directly. Whatever the precise implementation approach, to me it seems inevitable that the...

pearsonca