Most efficient property to hash for numpy array

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You can simply hash the underlying buffer, if you make it read-only:

>>> a = random.randint(10, 100, 100000)
>>> a.flags.writeable = False
>>> %timeit hash(a.data)
100 loops, best of 3: 2.01 ms per loop
>>> %timeit hash(a.tostring())
100 loops, best of 3: 2.28 ms per loop

For very large arrays, hash(str(a)) is a lot faster, but then it only takes a small part of the array into account.

>>> %timeit hash(str(a))
10000 loops, best of 3: 55.5 us per loop
>>> str(a)
'[63 30 33 ..., 96 25 60]'

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