Did the benchmarks again using 100,000 keys while allocating 200,000 keys and the difference did start to show a bit more. 
Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of with, without...
      with: 17 wallclock secs (13.56 usr +  0.24 sys = 13.80 CPU) @  0
+.72/s (n=10)
   without: 17 wallclock secs (15.34 usr +  0.02 sys = 15.36 CPU) @  0
+.65/s (n=10)

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Tried it using the rand idea, but after 100000 repetitions it had only alocated 20469/32768 buckets and the benchmarks weren't different at all... Also tried even more keys, but started getting (Out of memory) errors. :-) Thanks for the responses

In reply to Re: Using keys to increase hash efficiency by Boogman
in thread Using keys to increase hash efficiency by Boogman

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