哈希函数 英语单词_什么是对英文单词好的哈希函数？

I have a long list of English words and I would like to hash them. What would be a good hashing function? So far my hashing function sums the ASCII values of the letters then modulo the table size. I'm looking for something efficient and simple.

解决方案

To simply sum the letters is not a good strategy because a permutation gives the same result.

This one (djb2) is quite popular and works nicely with ASCII strings.

unsigned long hashstring(unsigned char *str)

{

unsigned long hash = 5381;

int c;

while (c = *str++)

hash = ((hash << 5) + hash) + c; /* hash * 33 + c */

return hash;

}

If you need more alternatives and some perfomance measures, read here.

Added: These are general hashing functions, where the input domain is not known in advance (except perhaps some very general assumptions: eg the above works slightly better with ascii input), which is the most usual scenario. If you have a known restricted domain (set of inputs fixed) you can do better, see Fionn's answer.