How do I calculate a good hash code for a list of strings?
- by Ian Ringrose
Background:
I have a short list of strings.
The number of strings is not always the same, but are nearly always of the order of a “handful”
In our database will store these strings in a 2nd normalised table
These strings are never changed once they are written to the database.
We wish to be able to match on these strings quickly in a query…