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Some test results about libihash


From: Richard Braun
Subject: Some test results about libihash
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 00:07:19 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 10:37:05AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> It disappeared a few months ago, and since it's not widespread, I
> suggest, despite providing to Justus in the first place, to use the
> Murmur finalizer instead. But we need to test that part a bit more.
> I'm currently doing just that.

Here are some results I could obtain :

1/ Using an extremely simple microbenchmark [1] that merely inserts
keys, either random integers or sequential ones to match the way port
names are managed, it seems that the previous code, despite its apparent
flaws, did quite well.

Using an integer hashing function actually reduces performance on the
sequential integer test case. It makes sense because, considering a set
of consecutive integers starting from 0, and a hash table that always
has more slots than items, a modulo is a perfect hash function. Even
when taking into account that only names for receive rights are normally
managed with libihash, i.e. that keys aren't actually sequential, they
are almost all equally distributed, leading to very few collisions.

Therefore, as a third option, I've removed the hashing function, leaving
only a fast modulo (an AND) and this variant provided the best raw
results.

2/ I've also built hurd packages multiple times and got average build
times with each variant (previous, new, new without hash function) and
here are the results I obtained respectively : 52m59s, 52m31s, 52m22s.

In the end, no surprise, but still a decent improvement. Good job :).

-- 
Richard Braun

[1] http://darnassus.sceen.net/gitweb/rbraun/ihtest.git



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