Hashing a string
I want a hash function in JMP for short strings. (I need it to create anonymized integer database keys from row data.)
It doesn't need to be cryptographic quality, just needs to have 64-bit (or 128-bit) result and have a reasonably low collision rate. I tried using Blob MD5() (with truncation to 64bits), but I can't believe how slow it is. (Just try it on a table with 500,000 rows!). Has anybody cr...
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