Re: HalfSipHash Acceptable Usage

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Eric,

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That really was for 1024 bytes blocks, so pretty much useless for our
> discussion ?
>
> Reading your numbers last week, I thought SipHash was faster, but George
> numbers are giving the opposite impression.
>
> I do not have a P4 to make tests, so I only can trust you or George.

I'm not sure how George came up with those numbers, but the ones I
sent are output from that benchmark function in the last email. I'd be
interested in learning this too.

As mentioned in the last email, it looks like potential 32-bit issues
are really just specific to old Intel chips. Other 32-bit
architectures do fine. So, for new kernels, even if somehow there is a
tiny performance regression (though I couldn't see one) on old
architectures, I really doubt it will affect anybody in practice.

Jason