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* $FreeBSD$
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/*
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lookup3.c, by Bob Jenkins, May 2006, Public Domain.
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These are functions for producing 32-bit hashes for hash table lookup.
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hashword(), hashlittle(), hashlittle2(), hashbig(), mix(), and final()
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are externally useful functions. Routines to test the hash are included
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if SELF_TEST is defined. You can use this free for any purpose. It's in
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the public domain. It has no warranty.
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You probably want to use hashlittle(). hashlittle() and hashbig()
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hash byte arrays. hashlittle() is is faster than hashbig() on
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little-endian machines. Intel and AMD are little-endian machines.
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On second thought, you probably want hashlittle2(), which is identical to
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hashlittle() except it returns two 32-bit hashes for the price of one.
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You could implement hashbig2() if you wanted but I haven't bothered here.
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If you want to find a hash of, say, exactly 7 integers, do
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a = i1; b = i2; c = i3;
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mix(a,b,c);
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a += i4; b += i5; c += i6;
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mix(a,b,c);
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a += i7;
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final(a,b,c);
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then use c as the hash value. If you have a variable length array of
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4-byte integers to hash, use hashword(). If you have a byte array (like
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a character string), use hashlittle(). If you have several byte arrays, or
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a mix of things, see the comments above hashlittle().
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Why is this so big? I read 12 bytes at a time into 3 4-byte integers,
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then mix those integers. This is fast (you can do a lot more thorough
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mixing with 12*3 instructions on 3 integers than you can with 3 instructions
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on 1 byte), but shoehorning those bytes into integers efficiently is messy.
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*/
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#define rot(x,k) (((x)<<(k)) | ((x)>>(32-(k))))
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/*
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