SpiritFingers

"Fast SimHash NIFs written in Rust 🐇💨 as Erlang/Elixir versions were too slow 🐢"

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Build

mix compile

Test

mix test

Versions

  • Elixir ~> 1.9
  • OTP 22
  • Rust 2018 ~> 1.39 (4560ea788 2019-11-04)
  • Rustler 1.21.0

Installation

Add spirit_fingers to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:spirit_fingers, "~> 0.3.0"}
  ]
end

Usage

Generate SimHash:

SimHash.simhash("wow")
{:ok, 17399923637769257768}

Similarity between strings:

SimHash.similarity("Hocus pocus", "Hocus pocus pilatus pas")
{:ok, 0.9375}

Hamming Distance between hashes:

SimHash.hamming_distance(17399923637769257768, 17399923637769257768)
{:ok, 0.0}

Similarity between hashes:

SimHash.hash_similarity(17399923637769257768, 17399923637769257768)
{:ok, 0.0}