Unsafe read beyond of death

While developing GxHash over my spare time during my last parent leave (babies sleep a lot, I swear I’m a good father 😇), I went down the rabbit hole and came up with increasingly low-level optimizations. In this article, I want to talk about one of the nastiest ones, but to whom GxHash is owed to be the fastest non-cryptographic hashing algorithm up to this date. I called this optimization 🥁🥁🥁 “Unsafe Read Beyond of Death” (or URBD)....

February 18, 2024 · 8 min