Actually it will

Posted Jan 23, 2012 12:40 UTC (Mon) by ekj (guest, #1524)
In reply to: Actually it will by khim
Parent article: Denial of service via hash collisions

I guess I was being unclear.

What I meant is that in typical use, producing hashes to use for inserting and/or looking things up in dictionaries is not a major performance-impact for Python.

I don't doubt that hashes can be produces quicker by dedicated hardware, but if you're using a small fraction of your time for that purpose to start with, then the gains from reducing it, are modest.

It'd be interesting benchmarking a variety of workloads in a variety of languages to see what fraction of time is used for hashing though, because I'm really just guessing here, and I could be wrong.