/* VTreeFS - sdbm.c - by Alen Stojanov and David van Moolenbroek */ /* * sdbm - ndbm work-alike hashed database library * based on Per-Aake Larson's Dynamic Hashing algorithms. BIT 18 (1978). * author: oz@nexus.yorku.ca * status: public domain. keep it that way. * * hashing routine */ #include "inc.h" /* * polynomial conversion ignoring overflows * [this seems to work remarkably well, in fact better * than the ndbm hash function. Replace at your own risk] * use: 65599 nice. * 65587 even better. */ long sdbm_hash(char *str, int len) { unsigned long n = 0; while (len--) n = *str++ + (n << 6) + (n << 16) - n; return n; }