NAME

Digest::MurmurHash - Perl XS interface to the MurmurHash algorithm

SYNOPSIS

use Digest::MurmurHash qw(murmur_hash);
murmur_hash($data_to_hash);

OR

use Digest::MurmurHash;
Digest::MurmurHash::murmur_hash($data_to_hash);

DESCRIPTION

The murmur hash algorithm by Austin Appleby is an exteremely fast algorithm that combines both excellent collision resistence and distribution characteristics.

BENCHMARK

Here is a comparison of this module between common hash function modules on an Intel Core2Duo 2.4GHz machine.

n = 10000000

murmur  :  ( 2.54 usr +  0.01 sys =  2.55 CPU ) @ 3921568.63/s
jenkins :  ( 2.89 usr +  0.01 sys =  2.90 CPU ) @ 3448275.86/s
pearson :  ( 2.99 usr +  0.01 sys =  3.00 CPU ) @ 3333333.33/s
fowler  :  ( 3.30 usr +  0.01 sys =  3.31 CPU ) @ 3021148.04/s
crc32   :  ( 3.86 usr +  0.00 sys =  3.86 CPU ) @ 2590673.58/s
md5     :  ( 7.12 usr +  0.01 sys =  7.13 CPU ) @ 1402524.54/s
sha1    :  ( 9.86 usr +  0.01 sys =  9.87 CPU ) @ 1013171.23/s

SEE ALSO

For more information on the Murmur algorithm, visit Austin Appleby's algorithm description page:

http://murmurhash.googlepages.com/

AUTHOR

Toru Maesaka, <dev@torum.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Toru Maesaka

MurmurHash algorithm comes from Austin Appleby.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.