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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]
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r=aturon
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r+ p=1 (for alpha)
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@bors: retry