Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I wonder if we do even better if we reverse all 8 bits instead of > swapping nybbles (if we were to do so, it might be more efficient to > shift in from the right instead of left end of the base and hash > accumulators in the loop and then swap the whole resulting word at > the end). > > Thanks for a fun read. Ah, yes, reversing is better than swapping nybbles (the least significant 2 bits have more entropy than the next-least significant 2 bits). When writing this, I didn't think of shifting in from the right (if I had thought of that, I would have indeed reversed the bits instead).
