[zalo]

Unsure about the Q.Score, but for large data, MeowHash appears to also be a solid choice for non-cryptographic hashing: https://mollyrocket.com/meowhash

A comparison that a user ran vs. xxHash: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9pr5ir/meow_ha...

[xs83]

XXHash has made pretty decent inroads and is integrated into many products already, we use it for Geohashing at scale on Spark and can't fault it!

[rurban]

meow is certainly not solid. it's brand new and still being discussed.

regarding the "extremely fast" claim: it's only fast for large blocks, not for normal strings. it's the perfect hash for a file or block digest, certainly not for a hash table.

[seppoastian]

According to the developer the upcoming release will be faster even for small blocks

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1060718409296437249

[rurban]

tip: Whenever someone is claiming "extremely fast", like xxhash or meow look at independent benchmarks. Nobody beats the simplest multiplicative hashes, esp. such big ones.

[yoklov]

Meow requires several instructions that make it difficult to use in practice for a while.