Question: What's the reason for using murmur hash?

[gaurav-gogia]

Hey,

I just wanted to ask the reason for using murmur hash here instead of some other cryptographically strong hash like SHA3 or BLAKE3 or something? Wouldn't using murmur hash affect accuracy of results? I understand that you are optimising for memory instead of CPU so I feel using a cryptographically secure hash will still stay aligned with your goals.

Please advise if my thoughts are correct here. Thanks

[muirdm]

Cryptographically secure hashes are slower. Since this is not a cryptographic application, I went with murmur, which was a good combination of speed and uniformity.

Originally the hash was configurable via the hash.Hash interface, but that was too slow.