1
Fork 0

rollup merge of #20654: alexcrichton/stabilize-hash

This commit aims to prepare the `std::hash` module for alpha by formalizing its
current interface whileholding off on adding `#[stable]` to the new APIs.  The
current usage with the `HashMap` and `HashSet` types is also reconciled by
separating out composable parts of the design. The primary goal of this slight
redesign is to separate the concepts of a hasher's state from a hashing
algorithm itself.

The primary change of this commit is to separate the `Hasher` trait into a
`Hasher` and a `HashState` trait. Conceptually the old `Hasher` trait was
actually just a factory for various states, but hashing had very little control
over how these states were used. Additionally the old `Hasher` trait was
actually fairly unrelated to hashing.

This commit redesigns the existing `Hasher` trait to match what the notion of a
`Hasher` normally implies with the following definition:

    trait Hasher {
        type Output;
        fn reset(&mut self);
        fn finish(&self) -> Output;
    }

This `Hasher` trait emphasizes that hashing algorithms may produce outputs other
than a `u64`, so the output type is made generic. Other than that, however, very
little is assumed about a particular hasher. It is left up to implementors to
provide specific methods or trait implementations to feed data into a hasher.

The corresponding `Hash` trait becomes:

    trait Hash<H: Hasher> {
        fn hash(&self, &mut H);
    }

The old default of `SipState` was removed from this trait as it's not something
that we're willing to stabilize until the end of time, but the type parameter is
always required to implement `Hasher`. Note that the type parameter `H` remains
on the trait to enable multidispatch for specialization of hashing for
particular hashers.

Note that `Writer` is not mentioned in either of `Hash` or `Hasher`, it is
simply used as part `derive` and the implementations for all primitive types.

With these definitions, the old `Hasher` trait is realized as a new `HashState`
trait in the `collections::hash_state` module as an unstable addition for
now. The current definition looks like:

    trait HashState {
        type Hasher: Hasher;
        fn hasher(&self) -> Hasher;
    }

The purpose of this trait is to emphasize that the one piece of functionality
for implementors is that new instances of `Hasher` can be created.  This
conceptually represents the two keys from which more instances of a
`SipHasher` can be created, and a `HashState` is what's stored in a
`HashMap`, not a `Hasher`.

Implementors of custom hash algorithms should implement the `Hasher` trait, and
only hash algorithms intended for use in hash maps need to implement or worry
about the `HashState` trait.

The entire module and `HashState` infrastructure remains `#[unstable]` due to it
being recently redesigned, but some other stability decision made for the
`std::hash` module are:

* The `Writer` trait remains `#[experimental]` as it's intended to be replaced
  with an `io::Writer` (more details soon).
* The top-level `hash` function is `#[unstable]` as it is intended to be generic
  over the hashing algorithm instead of hardwired to `SipHasher`
* The inner `sip` module is now private as its one export, `SipHasher` is
  reexported in the `hash` module.

And finally, a few changes were made to the default parameters on `HashMap`.

* The `RandomSipHasher` default type parameter was renamed to `RandomState`.
  This renaming emphasizes that it is not a hasher, but rather just state to
  generate hashers. It also moves away from the name "sip" as it may not always
  be implemented as `SipHasher`. This type lives in the
  `std::collections::hash_map` module as `#[unstable]`

* The associated `Hasher` type of `RandomState` is creatively called...
  `Hasher`! This concrete structure lives next to `RandomState` as an
  implemenation of the "default hashing algorithm" used for a `HashMap`. Under
  the hood this is currently implemented as `SipHasher`, but it draws an
  explicit interface for now and allows us to modify the implementation over
  time if necessary.

There are many breaking changes outlined above, and as a result this commit is
a:

[breaking-change]
This commit is contained in:
Alex Crichton 2015-01-07 17:17:19 -08:00
commit 8bf3ee7c5c
50 changed files with 1084 additions and 1035 deletions

View file

@ -67,21 +67,20 @@
//! }
//! ```
use core::prelude::*;
use core::atomic;
use core::atomic::Ordering::{Relaxed, Release, Acquire, SeqCst};
use core::borrow::BorrowFrom;
use core::clone::Clone;
use core::fmt::{self, Show};
use core::cmp::{Eq, Ord, PartialEq, PartialOrd, Ordering};
use core::cmp::{Ordering};
use core::default::Default;
use core::marker::{Sync, Send};
use core::mem::{min_align_of, size_of, drop};
use core::mem::{min_align_of, size_of};
use core::mem;
use core::nonzero::NonZero;
use core::ops::{Drop, Deref};
use core::option::Option;
use core::option::Option::{Some, None};
use core::ptr::{self, PtrExt};
use core::ops::Deref;
use core::ptr;
use core::hash::{Hash, Hasher};
use heap::deallocate;
/// An atomically reference counted wrapper for shared state.
@ -591,6 +590,12 @@ impl<T: Default + Sync + Send> Default for Arc<T> {
fn default() -> Arc<T> { Arc::new(Default::default()) }
}
impl<H: Hasher, T: Hash<H>> Hash<H> for Arc<T> {
fn hash(&self, state: &mut H) {
(**self).hash(state)
}
}
#[cfg(test)]
#[allow(experimental)]
mod tests {