Improvements for xxHash performance, both on small keys as well as large slices.
* std.hash: make benchmarks consistent for xxhash
There is some odd behaviour in the timings for the XXHash benchmarks
introduced in 879f0b9, specifically the changes to the allocation in
benchmarkHash. The problem is somewhere in the difference between
9628243 and 9362d61 (these are commit that were force-pushed over but
can be found in PR #15917).
* std.hash: correctly calculate throughput in benchmark
* std.hash: add hashes per sec to small key output
* std.hash: add exact and small xxhash routines
* std.hash: add --small-only flag to benchmark
* std.hash.xxhash: extract stateless Accumulator type
* std.hash.xxhash: cleanup hash() and improve small key perf
* std.hash.xxhash: port xxhash64 changes to xxhash32
* std.hash: change benchmark --small-only flag to --include-array
Most of this migration was performed automatically with `zig fmt`. There
were a few exceptions which I had to manually fix:
* `@alignCast` and `@addrSpaceCast` cannot be automatically rewritten
* `@truncate`'s fixup is incorrect for vectors
* Test cases are not formatted, and their error locations change
These changes have been made to resolve issue #10037. The `Random`
interface was implemented in such a way that causes significant slowdown
when calling the `fill` function of the rng used.
The `Random` interface is no longer stored in a field of the rng, and is
instead returned by the child function `random()` of the rng. This
avoids the performance issues caused by the interface.
We already have a LICENSE file that covers the Zig Standard Library. We
no longer need to remind everyone that the license is MIT in every single
file.
Previously this was introduced to clarify the situation for a fork of
Zig that made Zig's LICENSE file harder to find, and replaced it with
their own license that required annual payments to their company.
However that fork now appears to be dead. So there is no need to
reinforce the copyright notice in every single file.
This breaking change disambiguates between overriding the lib dir when
performing an installation with the Zig Build System, and overriding the
lib dir that the Zig installation itself uses.
SipHash *is* a cryptographic function, with a 128-bit security level.
However, it is not a regular hash function: a secret key is required,
and knowledge of that key allows collisions to be quickly computed offline.
SipHash is therefore more suitable to be used as a MAC.
The same API as other MACs was implemented in addition to functions directly
returning an integer.
The benchmarks have been updated accordingly.
No changes to the SipHash implementation itself.
Dominic