XXH3

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This package is a port of the xxh3 library to Go.

Upstream has fixed the output as of v0.8.0, and this package matches that.


Benchmarks

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Small Sizes

Bytes64-bit64-bit Seed128-bit128-bit Seed
01.16 ns1.72 ns1.31 ns2.13 ns
1-31.58 ns (0.63-1.90 GB/s)1.79 ns (0.56-1.68 GB/s)1.92 ns (0.52-1.56 GB/s)2.32 ns (0.43-1.29 GB/s)
4-81.56 ns (2.56-5.13 GB/s)1.80 ns (2.22-4.44 GB/s)1.81 ns (2.21-4.42 GB/s)2.15 ns (1.86-3.72 GB/s)
9-161.38 ns (6.52-11.6 GB/s)1.71 ns (5.26-9.36 GB/s)2.25 ns (4.00-7.11 GB/s)2.50 ns (3.60-6.40 GB/s)
17-321.72 ns (9.88-18.6 GB/s)2.07 ns (8.21-15.5 GB/s)2.69 ns (6.32-11.9 GB/s)3.05 ns (5.57-10.5 GB/s)
33-642.39 ns (13.8-26.8 GB/s)2.76 ns (12.0-23.2 GB/s)3.47 ns (9.51-18.4 GB/s)3.87 ns (8.53-16.5 GB/s)
65-963.16 ns (20.6-30.4 GB/s)3.63 ns (17.9-26.4 GB/s)4.46 ns (14.6-21.5 GB/s)4.95 ns (13.1-19.4 GB/s)
97-1283.89 ns (24.9-32.9 GB/s)4.41 ns (22.0-29.0 GB/s)5.22 ns (18.6-24.5 GB/s)5.75 ns (16.9-22.3 GB/s)

Large Sizes

64-bit default is shown. The 128-bit variant adds only a small finalization (within a few % here). A non-zero seed re-derives the 192-byte secret on every call, so seeded hashing is markedly slower at these sizes (e.g. 512 B SSE2: 20.3 vs 11.2 ns/op) and only amortizes to <1% by ~100KB.

BytesRateSSE2 RateAVX2 RateAVX512 Rate
1294.52 ns/op (28.5 GB/s)
2407.39 ns/op (32.5 GB/s)
24113.6 ns/op (17.7 GB/s)7.95 ns/op (30.3 GB/s)11.3 ns/op (21.4 GB/s)
51223.1 ns/op (22.2 GB/s)11.2 ns/op (45.7 GB/s)14.1 ns/op (36.4 GB/s)
102442.1 ns/op (24.3 GB/s)20.7 ns/op (49.5 GB/s)20.9 ns/op (49.0 GB/s)23.9 ns/op (42.9 GB/s)
100KB4.03 us/op (25.4 GB/s)2.10 us/op (48.7 GB/s)1.07 us/op (96.0 GB/s)685 ns/op (149 GB/s)

Intel i7-8850H @ 2.60GHz

Small Sizes

BytesRate
00.74 ns/op
1-34.19 ns/op (0.24 GB/s - 0.71 GB/s)
4-84.16 ns/op (0.97 GB/s - 1.98 GB/s)
9-164.46 ns/op (2.02 GB/s - 3.58 GB/s)
17-326.22 ns/op (2.76 GB/s - 5.15 GB/s)
33-648.00 ns/op (4.13 GB/s - 8.13 GB/s)
65-9611.0 ns/op (5.91 GB/s - 8.84 GB/s)
97-12812.8 ns/op (7.68 GB/s - 10.0 GB/s)

Large Sizes

BytesRateSSE2 RateAVX2 Rate
12913.6 ns/op (9.45 GB/s)
24023.8 ns/op (10.1 GB/s)
24140.5 ns/op (5.97 GB/s)23.3 ns/op (10.4 GB/s)20.1 ns/op (12.0 GB/s)
51269.8 ns/op (7.34 GB/s)30.4 ns/op (16.9 GB/s)24.7 ns/op (20.7 GB/s)
1024132 ns/op (7.77 GB/s)48.9 ns/op (20.9 GB/s)37.7 ns/op (27.2 GB/s)
100KB13.0 us/op (7.88 GB/s)4.05 us/op (25.3 GB/s)2.31 us/op (44.3 GB/s)