[issue16427] Faster hash implementation

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes added the comment:

Antoine, I have addressed your concern "Well, the quality of the hash function is clearly reduced" in patch http://hg.python.org/features/pep-456/rev/765930d944a5

>>> s = set()
>>> for i in range(256):
...     s.add(hash("abcdfeg" + chr(i)) & 0xff)
... 
>>> len(s)
256
>>> s = set()
>>> for i in range(256):
...     s.add(hash("abcdfeghabcdefg" + chr(i)) & 0xff)
... 
>>> len(s)
256

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