$ cat mystery.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <sys/time.h>

#include "xxHash/xxhash.h"

// export USE_FOO2=0; gcc -DUSE_FOO2=$USE_FOO2 -DXXH_INLINE_ALL -O1 -S -o mystery$USE_FOO2.s mystery.c && gcc -c -o mystery$USE_FOO2.o mystery$USE_FOO2.s && gcc -o mystery$USE_FOO2.exe mystery$USE_FOO2.o && ./mystery$USE_FOO2.exe; cat mystery$USE_FOO2.s | egrep -i "(^[a-z].*:|call)"
// export USE_FOO2=1; gcc -DUSE_FOO2=$USE_FOO2 -DXXH_INLINE_ALL -O1 -S -o mystery$USE_FOO2.s mystery.c && gcc -c -o mystery$USE_FOO2.o mystery$USE_FOO2.s && gcc -o mystery$USE_FOO2.exe mystery$USE_FOO2.o && ./mystery$USE_FOO2.exe; cat mystery$USE_FOO2.s | egrep -i "(^[a-z].*:|call)"

double get_time_in_seconds(void) {
    struct timeval tv;
    assert(gettimeofday(&tv, NULL) >= 0);
    return (double)tv.tv_sec + 1.e-6 * (double)tv.tv_usec;
}

uint64_t loop = 500000000;

void __attribute__ ((noinline)) foo1(void) {
    XXH64_hash_t hash_xor = 0;
    double t1 = get_time_in_seconds();
    for(uint64_t i = 0; i < loop ; i ++) {
        XXH64_hash_t hash = XXH64(&i, sizeof(i), 123456 /* seed */);
        hash_xor = hash_xor ^ hash;
    }
    double t2 = get_time_in_seconds();
    printf("- %lu 64bit hashes created xor hash 0x%lx in %f seconds or %.0f per second\n", loop, hash_xor, t2 - t1, loop / (t2 - t1));
}

#if USE_FOO2
void __attribute__ ((noinline)) foo2(void) {
    XXH64_hash_t hash_xor = 0;
    double t1 = get_time_in_seconds();
    for(uint64_t i = 0; i < loop ; i ++) {
        XXH64_hash_t hash = XXH64(&i, sizeof(i), 123456 /* seed */);
        hash_xor = hash_xor ^ hash;
    }
    double t2 = get_time_in_seconds();
    printf("- %lu 64bit hashes created xor hash 0x%lx in %f seconds or %.0f per second\n", loop, hash_xor, t2 - t1, loop / (t2 - t1));
}
#endif

void main(void) {
    foo1();
    //foo2();
}

$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0

$ git clone https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash.git

$ export USE_FOO2=0; gcc -DUSE_FOO2=$USE_FOO2 -DXXH_INLINE_ALL -O1 -S -o mystery$USE_FOO2.s mystery.c && gcc -c -o mystery$USE_FOO2.o mystery$USE_FOO2.s && gcc -o mystery$USE_FOO2.exe mystery$USE_FOO2.o && ./mystery$USE_FOO2.exe; cat mystery$USE_FOO2.s | egrep -i "(^[a-z].*:|call)"
- 500000000 64bit hashes created xor hash 0xde5d248747c84e34 in 1.452864 seconds or 344147851 per second
get_time_in_seconds:
	call	gettimeofday@PLT
	call	__assert_fail@PLT
	call	__stack_chk_fail@PLT
foo1:
	call	get_time_in_seconds
	call	get_time_in_seconds
	call	__printf_chk@PLT
main:
	call	foo1
loop:

$ export USE_FOO2=1; gcc -DUSE_FOO2=$USE_FOO2 -DXXH_INLINE_ALL -O1 -S -o mystery$USE_FOO2.s mystery.c && gcc -c -o mystery$USE_FOO2.o mystery$USE_FOO2.s && gcc -o mystery$USE_FOO2.exe mystery$USE_FOO2.o && ./mystery$USE_FOO2.exe; cat mystery$USE_FOO2.s | egrep -i "(^[a-z].*:|call)"
- 500000000 64bit hashes created xor hash 0xde5d248747c84e34 in 2.790860 seconds or 179156250 per second
XXH64_finalize:
get_time_in_seconds:
	call	gettimeofday@PLT
	call	__assert_fail@PLT
	call	__stack_chk_fail@PLT
foo1:
	call	get_time_in_seconds
	call	XXH64_finalize
	call	get_time_in_seconds
	call	__printf_chk@PLT
	call	__stack_chk_fail@PLT
foo2:
	call	get_time_in_seconds
	call	XXH64_finalize
	call	get_time_in_seconds
	call	__printf_chk@PLT
	call	__stack_chk_fail@PLT
main:
	call	foo1
loop:

$ wc --bytes mystery*
16280 mystery0.exe
 3088 mystery0.o
 3508 mystery0.s
16344 mystery1.exe
 4064 mystery1.o
 6976 mystery1.s
 3314 mystery.c