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There's a Lot More to Hash Functions Than They Teach You in School
- bdfh42 19y agoGoing back 30 working years (and some of use do), writing your own hash routines was a standard lesson for programmers. Nowadays it is something of a lost art - I am glad to see the pressures of modern large scale systems have revived interest in this area among more than just those responsible for creating runtime frameworks.
- xirium 19y agoFrom the article: "It seems the three popular hash functions these days is the Jenkins, FNV, and Hsieh hash functions." FNV is popular in banking applications. From the article: "'we read Knuth so you don't have to'" People working in languages with good hash functions can achieve small miracles while in ignorance.