i think it's worth pointing out the new murmurhash 3 for lookup table hashing, it has gone a long way and is supposed to be _really_ fast: http://code.google.co

i think it's worth pointing out the new murmurhash 3 for lookup table hashing, it has gone a long way and is supposed to be _really_ fast: http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/ http://code.google.com/p/smhasher/ The author of murmurhash actually based their work on Bob Jenkin's trying to make it speedier, and developed a nice hash test suite.