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SubjectRe: more on hash functions
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Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org> said:

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> actually, this was my first implementation choice. i found that the hash
> function didn't work very well with 3 8-bit tables -- it had poor
> bucket size distribution characteristics. how does one combine 3 8-bit
> values appropriately to get, say, a 14-bit table index?

a ^ (b << 3) ^ (c << 6)
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