zend_fast_hash

Can you explain how it is simpler? :) Writing a lightweight hash has been
on our mind for quite some time, but the reason it never happened is that
it appears that most of the places that use hashes actually do take
advantage of the non-bare-bones features. The biggest difference I can
spot is that there's no linked list that links all of the elements. But if
we end up adding apply, and clean (which are actually used a lot outside
the scope of symbol tables), and soon enough we'd also need merge, copy and
unnamed elements - I'm not sure it's worth the trouble of having two
different APIs. Feel free to convince us :)

Zeev

At 16:33 21.05.2003, Sterling Hughes wrote:

Hi,

I've implemented a very lightweight, efficient hash table for zend
engine 2. This is a table that's appropriate for usage in many of the
areas where then Zend hash table implementation is unnecessarily complex
(which is pretty much everywhere except for PHP arrays themselves.)

I've attached the implementation, and a patch which integrates the new
hashtable implementation with Zend, including a "case-study," where I've
converted over EG(included_files) to use the new hashtable
implementation. Right now the hash table code is very simple, as its
just there for initial perusal, it can of course be improved upon.

So, when can I integrate it? ;-)

-Sterling

--
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."
- Henry Ford

I'll try and take a look at it more closely in the next couple of days.
I've been wanting to make a fast hash for a while for the parts of PHP
which don't need the goodies in the existing one.
A few things which I saw right away:
a) You can allocate the key as part of the hash element. This will save you
an emalloc() per insertion and an efree() per deletion (we do this in
zend_hash.).
b) Instead of using modulo (%) you can use bit arithmetic like in
zend_hash.. The hash function is supposed to be good enough.

Wanna write up a new patch?

Thans,
Andi

At 09:33 AM 5/21/2003 -0400, Sterling Hughes wrote:

Hi,

I've implemented a very lightweight, efficient hash table for zend
engine 2. This is a table that's appropriate for usage in many of the
areas where then Zend hash table implementation is unnecessarily complex
(which is pretty much everywhere except for PHP arrays themselves.)

I've attached the implementation, and a patch which integrates the new
hashtable implementation with Zend, including a "case-study," where I've
converted over EG(included_files) to use the new hashtable
implementation. Right now the hash table code is very simple, as its
just there for initial perusal, it can of course be improved upon.

So, when can I integrate it? ;-)

-Sterling

--
"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business."
- Henry Ford