[PATCH] Use Peter J. Weinberger's hash function in xdiff

["Marco Costalba" <mcostalba@gmail.com>]

It seems a little bit faster then current one:

WITH CURRENT ONE

git tree
$ time git diff v0.99.. > /dev/null
0.91user 0.02system 0:01.03elapsed 91%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+3594minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Linux tree
$ time git diff v2.6.22.. > /dev/null
13.61user 0.19system 0:13.90elapsed 99%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+27279minor)pagefaults 0swaps

WITH NEW ONE

git tree
$ time git diff v0.99.. > /dev/null
0.87user 0.01system 0:00.98elapsed 90%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+3594minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Linux tree
$ time git diff v2.6.22.. > /dev/null
13.26user 0.21system 0:13.57elapsed 99%CPU
(0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (0major+27277minor)pagefaults 0swaps

Signed-off-by: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
---

This patch is not intended for inclusion, the time diff is very small,
but it would be interestiing to understand from where it comes from
possibly from people more versed then me in hashing functions.

BTW this modified Weinberger's hash function is the one used in Qt
library, for the QHash class.

 xdiff/xutils.c |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xdiff/xutils.c b/xdiff/xutils.c
index 2ade97b..c19ab6e 100644
--- a/xdiff/xutils.c
+++ b/xdiff/xutils.c
@@ -270,24 +270,32 @@ static unsigned long
 	return ha;
 }

+/*
+    This function is based on Peter J. Weinberger's hash function
+    (from the Dragon Book). The constant 24 in the original function
+    was replaced with 23 to produce fewer collisions on input such as
+    "a", "aa", "aaa", "aaaa", ...
+*/

 unsigned long xdl_hash_record(char const **data, char const *top, long flags) {
-	unsigned long ha = 5381;
+
+	unsigned long ha = 0;
+	unsigned long g;
 	char const *ptr = *data;

 	if (flags & XDF_WHITESPACE_FLAGS)
 		return xdl_hash_record_with_whitespace(data, top, flags);

-	for (; ptr < top && *ptr != '\n'; ptr++) {
-		ha += (ha << 5);
-		ha ^= (unsigned long) *ptr;
+	while (ptr < top && *ptr != '\n') {
+		ha = (ha << 4) + *ptr++;
+		if ((g = (ha & 0xf0000000)) != 0)
+			ha ^= g >> 23;
+		ha &= ~g;
 	}
 	*data = ptr < top ? ptr + 1: ptr;
-
 	return ha;
 }

-
 unsigned int xdl_hashbits(unsigned int size) {
 	unsigned int val = 1, bits = 0;

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