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GPERF versus CMPH
You might ask why cmph if [gperf http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/gperf.html]
already works perfectly. Actually, gperf and cmph have different goals.
Basically, these are the requirements for each of them:
- GPERF
- Create very fast hash functions for **small** sets
- Create **perfect** hash functions
- CMPH
- Create very fast hash function for **very large** sets
- Create **minimal perfect** hash functions
As result, cmph can be used to create hash functions where gperf would run
forever without finding a perfect hash function, because of the running
time of the algorithm and the large memory usage.
On the other side, functions created by cmph are about 2x slower than those
created by gperf.
So, if you have large sets, or memory usage is a key restriction for you, stick
to cmph. If you have small sets, and do not care about memory usage, go with
gperf. The first problem is common in the information retrieval field (e.g.
assigning ids to millions of documents), while the former is usually found in
the compiler programming area (detect reserved keywords).
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CMPH - C Minimal Perfect Hashing Library
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Description
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can not fit in the main memory. It has been used successfully for constructing minimal perfect
hashing functions for sets with more than 100 million of keys.
Although there is a lack of similar libraries
in the free software world, we can point out some of the distinguishable
features of cmph:
in the free software world (gperf is a bit different (gperf.html)), we can point out some
of the distinguishable features of cmph:
- Fast.
- Space-efficient with main memory usage carefully documented.
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Fabiano Cupertino Botelho
Last Updated: Tue Jan 25 18:43:38 2005
Last Updated: Wed Jan 26 22:37:36 2005

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**Description**
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can not fit in the main memory. It has been used successfully for constructing minimal perfect
hashing functions for sets with more than 100 million of keys.
Although there is a lack of similar libraries
in the free software world, we can point out some of the distinguishable
features of cmph:
in the free software world ([gperf is a bit different gperf.html]), we can point out some
of the distinguishable features of cmph:
- Fast.
- Space-efficient with main memory usage carefully documented.
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- Well encapsulated API aiming binary compatibility through releases.
- Free Software.
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**Supported Algorithms**

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txt2tags -t html -i BMZ.t2t -o bmz.html
txt2tags -t html -i CHM.t2t -o chm.html
txt2tags -t html -i COMPARISON.t2t -o comparison.html
txt2tags -t html -i GPERF.t2t -o gperf.html
txt2tags -t txt -i README.t2t -o README