On 11/30/05 7:12 PM, "Ed Kleban" <Ed at Kleban .D.OT com> wrote:
> Be very careful. You don't want or need a hash with fantastic polynomial
> distribution characteristics like CRC, you don't need a secure hash like
> MD5. You simply need a very very "good enough" fast hash, like "rotate by 5
> bits and xor". I'd look to see if the IBM guys have a normailzation method
> for converting a string to a standard form and then use your own hand-coded
> hash algorithm on that. I'd be very wary of using another "hash" algorithm
> without understanding exactly what it's doing. It's the primary bottleneck
> in making this run fast.
You know you are right.
I remember that have some canonic form of strings.
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