https://github.com/tkaitchuck/aHash/pull/196 bumped the MSRV of
`ahash` in a patch release, which makes it rather difficult for us
to have it as a dependency.
Further, it seems that `ahash` hasn't been particularly robust in
the past, notably
https://github.com/tkaitchuck/aHash/issues/163 and
https://github.com/tkaitchuck/aHash/issues/166.
Luckily, `core` provides `SipHasher` even on no-std (sadly its
SipHash-2-4 unlike the SipHash-1-3 used by the `DefaultHasher` in
`std`). Thus, we drop the `ahash` dependency entirely here and
simply wrap `SipHasher` for our `no-std` HashMaps.
While this isn't expected to materially improve performance, it
does get us ahash 0.8, which allows us to reduce fuzzing
randomness, making our fuzzers much happier.
Sadly, by default `ahash` no longer tries to autodetect a
randomness source, so we cannot simply rely on `hashbrown` to do
randomization for us, but rather have to also explicitly depend on
`ahash`.
In the next commits we'll need `f64`'s `powf`, which is only
available in `std`. For `no-std`, here we depend on `libm` (a
`rust-lang` org project), which we can use for `powf`.
Rather than using the std benchmark framework (which isn't
maintained and is unlikely to get any further maintenance), we swap
for criterion, which at least gets us a variable number of test
runs so our benchmarks don't take forever.
We also fix the RGS benchmark to pass now that the file in use is
stale compared to today's date.
To match the local signatures found in test vectors, we must make sure
we don't use any additional randomess when generating signatures, as
we'll arrive at a different signature otherwise.
`hashbrown` depends on `ahash` which depends on `once_cell`. Sadly,
in https://github.com/matklad/once_cell/issues/201 the `once_cell`
maintainer decided they didn't want to do the work of having an
MSRV policy for `once_cell`, making `ahash`, and thus `hashbrown`
require the latest compiler. I've reached out to `ahash` to suggest
they drop the dependency (as they could trivially work around not
having it), but until then we simply downgrade `hashbrown`.
`rust-bitcoin` also requires an older `hashbrown` so we're actually
reducing our total `no-std` code here anyway.
`cargo bench` sets `cfg(test)`, causing us to hit some test-only
code in the router when benchmarking, throwing off our benchmarks
substantially. Here we swap from the `unstable` feature to a more
clearly internal feature (`_bench_unstable`) and also checking for
it when enabling test-only code.
