General Purpose Hash Functions Extension

hashfunctions-extension is a Ruby C extension which implements 11 fast hash functions for general purpose non-cryptographic use implemented originally by Arash Partow. General pure API is available by the hashfunctions gem.

Some example:

require "general-hash-functions/extension"
hash = GeneralHashFunctionsExt::djbhash("some string")
# will return the 395673328

See description of all contained functions at Arash Partow's page: http://www.partow.net/programming/hashfunctions/index.html#AvailableHashFunctions

Copyright © 2002 Arash Partow. Copyright © 2012 Martin Kozák. See LICENSE.txt for further details.