On 1/1/19 2:40 PM, Michelle Long wrote:
I need to hash a few strings to a byte, short, or int. hashOf works for
int only on x86.
What would be a nice way to accomplish this? Collisions are not good but
not catastrophic. Mainly I need a unique ID to emulate enums. I might
just chop off the extra bits or mash them up somehow and it will
probably work but hoping for something more solid.
Not from experience, but just thinking out loud, you could take the int
and xor the parts together.
in other words:
auto x = hashOf(y);
ushort realHash = (x ^ (x >> 16)) & 0xffff;
ubyte would be 4 terms, but still not too bad.
-Steve
