Function hashString

src/Hash.ts:85–97

(string: string)

// http://jsperf.com/hashing-strings
function hashString(string: string): number {
  // This is the hash from JVM
  // The hash code for a string is computed as
  // s[0] * 31 ^ (n - 1) + s[1] * 31 ^ (n - 2) + ... + s[n - 1],
  // where s[i] is the ith character of the string and n is the length of
  // the string. We "mod" the result to make it between 0 (inclusive) and 2^31
  // (exclusive) by dropping high bits.
  let hashed = 0;
  for (let ii = 0; ii < string.length; ii++) {
    hashed = (31 * hashed + string.charCodeAt(ii)) | 0;
  }
  return smi(hashed);
}

// Per-process seed for the secondary collision hash. Never exposed nor
// serialized, so the public `hash()` stays deterministic. An odd base in