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		tyingq on Dec 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How many lines of C it takes to execute a + b in P... It looks like you can disable the slower randomized hashing yourself by setting PYTHONHASHSEED to 0. Though I don't know if there's further speedup to be had by using a different hash implementation. https://docs.python.org/3/using/cmdline.html#envvar-PYTHONHA... The original issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue13703

masklinn on Dec 11, 2023 [–]

That only disables the keying of the hash function (sets the initial value to 0), it does not change the hash function.

The hashseed is a per-process value, it has basically no impact on performances.

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