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2023-01-31SL-19110 Fix coding policyAndrey Kleshchev
2023-01-31SL-19110 Fast hashing classes for use in place of the slow LLMD5, where ↵Henri Beauchamp
speed matters. (#64) This commit adds the HBXX64 and HBXX128 classes for use as a drop-in replacement for the slow LLMD5 hashing class, where speed matters and backward compatibility (with standard hashing algorithms) and/or cryptographic hashing qualities are not required. It also replaces LLMD5 with HBXX* in a few existing hot (well, ok, just "warm" for some) paths meeting the above requirements, while paving the way for future use cases, such as in the DRTVWR-559 and sibling branches where the slow LLMD5 is used (e.g. to hash materials and vertex buffer cache entries), and could be use such a (way) faster algorithm with very significant benefits and no negative impact. Here is the comment I added in indra/llcommon/hbxx.h: // HBXXH* classes are to be used where speed matters and cryptographic quality // is not required (no "one-way" guarantee, though they are likely not worst in // this respect than MD5 which got busted and is now considered too weak). The // xxHash code they are built upon is vectorized and about 50 times faster than // MD5. A 64 bits hash class is also provided for when 128 bits of entropy are // not needed. The hashes collision rate is similar to MD5's. // See https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash#readme for details.