Generate unique ID for URL

[Richard]

I found md5 / sha 4-5 times slower than hash. And base64 a lot slower.

No database or else I would just use their ID.


On Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:59:55 AM UTC+11, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Am 14.11.2012 01:41, schrieb Richard Baron Penman:
> 
> > I found the MD5 and SHA hashes slow to calculate.
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> > The builtin hash is fast but I was concerned about collisions. What
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> > rate of collisions could I expect?
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> 
> 
> Seriously? It takes about 1-5msec to sha1() one MB of data on a modern
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> CPU, 1.5 on my box. The openssl variants of Python's hash code release
> 
> the GIL so you use the power of all cores.