On: Meow Hash: A high-speed non-cryptographic hash fun...

[masklinn]

> MeowHash is also a bad cryptographic hash.

MeowHash is not cryptographic at all.

> Is MeowHash faster than MD5 or not?

Meowhash is advertised as 16 bytes per cycle. MD5 is around 5 cycles per byte[0] or 0.2 bytes per cycle.

Pre-existing fast non-cryptographic hashes apparently top out around 5.5 bytes per cycle (CityHashCRC256).

[0] https://keccak.team/sw_performance.html

[ynniv → masklinn]

Thank you. The comparison of MeowHash to SHA without mentioning MD5 or any actual performance numbers didn't make sense.