Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 14:10:07 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sys/alpha/include types.h sys/i386/include types.h sys/ia64/include types.h sys/powerpc/include types.h sys/kern vfs_cache.c sys/nfs nfs.h nfs_node.c sys/sys fnv_hash.h Message-ID: <20010322141007.B724@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <200103171958.OAA75595@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <200103171050.aa94864@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <3AB3711F.42629FB6@newsguy.com> <3AB3711F.42629FB6@newsguy.com> <200103171958.OAA75595@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: > >some simpler well-known hashes like Chris Torek's (h' = 33h + s[i]) >work well for ASCII strings but not for binary data. I have been trying to track down the original source of this hash, and I have yet to find a decent reference to its first occurrence. It's used by perl (without citation) and by Apache's APR, where it is attributed to DJB via a post to comp.lang.c but without a message-ID or date. A good citation would be much appreciated. Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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