bpo-34751: improved hash function for tuples #9534
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This patch improves the hash code for tuples to avoid the obvious hash collision
Pseudo-code of the new hash:
This has the structure of a standard FNV-1a hash. The line
y = mangle(y)
was added to avoid hash collisions for nested tuples and to work around collisions due tox ^ -2 = -x
for odd x.The constants were chosen as follows:
https://bugs.python.org/issue34751