Req #73385 [Opn]: xxhash for hash extension

Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73385&edit=1 ID: 73385 Updated by: kalle@php.net Reported by: spam2 at rhsoft dot net Summary: xxhash for hash extension Status: Open Type: Feature/Change Request Package: hash related PHP Version: Irrelevant Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Maybe you could contact the author and ask him to make an RFC and merge with the existing ext/hash extension, seems like an excellent inclusion for 7.2 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2016-10-25 09:03:53] spam2 at rhsoft dot net Description: ------------ https://github.com/stuartherbert/php-xxhash since we have now hash(ALGO, data) and hash_file(ALGO, data) and hash_algos() it would make more sense to have it as another algorithm than a out-of-tree module the main usecase i see here is for etag-headers which needs to be fast and are not very collision critical in real life ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=73385&edit=1