xxHash
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Jan 21, 2026first mention
Sep 15, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I settled on https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash for similar things”
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“I was getting 2x perf when using xxhash3 instead of wyhash”
Caveats and dissent
“You don't want to use xxhash (or crc32, or cityhash, ...) for checksums of archived files”
Threads where it came up
Data: xxhash.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“xxhash is the best modern option”
“I settled on https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash for similar things”
“I was getting 2x perf when using xxhash3 instead of wyhash”
“You don't want to use xxhash (or crc32, or cityhash, ...) for checksums of archived files”
“xxhash is definitely an improvement over CRC32.”