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Re:Open Source at Google: Introducing CityHash by elq on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:00PM (#2434604)
looking at the code, they've optimized for speed. And they also said -

> We decided to optimize for speed rather than simplicity and even included special cases for short inputs.

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Re:Open Source at Google: Introducing CityHash by nbpoole on Monday April 11, 2011 @06:11PM (#2434648)
Right, I understand that. I'm just surprised that they aren't showing off benchmarks or statistics to quantify the performance gains they're seeing.
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