This was purely due to familiarity. I knew murmur3 was considered a good, current hashing algorithm. I was able to find a good implementation of it in JS, so I

This was purely due to familiarity. I knew murmur3 was considered a good, current hashing algorithm. I was able to find a good implementation of it in JS, so I didn't really look any further. Thanks for exposing me to xxhash! I'll store that away as an alternative to murmur3 if I ever need one in future. :)