Re: BSD license compatible hash algorithm?

"Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
All hashs have issues with pooling.... see
http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/index.html... btw it is a old
wives tale that the number of buckets should be prime (mostly based on
the very weak implementation Knuth offered)

Not an "old wives' tale", but rather an easy way to implement a hash
algorithm that is good enough for most simple uses: metric modulo table
size, where metric is a number derived from the item in such a manner as
to give a good spread.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@xxxxxx
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