hash: are you accepting new hash algorithms?

[OneOfOne]

Are there any plans to include new hash algorithms?

Mainly xxhash, I have an implementation @ https://github.com/OneOfOne/xxhash/, I'm willing to switch the license to use Go's but before I go through gerrit I wanted to make sure there's a chance for it to be accepted.

[ianlancetaylor]

Please ask this kind of question on golang-dev@googlegroups.com, not on the issue tracker. Thanks.

In general we are only going to add a new hash function to the standard library if it is necessary for some other piece of required functionality, or if it is clearly superior in some important way. We aren't going to add every possible hash function to the library. That's what "go get" is for.

[randall77]

I've implemented something along those lines - it is already out for review:

https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/1360/

It's a mixup of cityhash and xxhash and some of my own ideas.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Ahmed W. notifications@github.com wrote:

Are there any plans to include new hash algorithms?

Mainly xxhash, I have an implementation @
https://github.com/OneOfOne/xxhash/, I'm willing to switch the license to
use Go's but before I go through gerrit I wanted to make sure there's a
chance for it to be accepted.

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