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POConsistent String#hash based only on the string's content
 

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    <p><strong>GOAL:</strong> Map every URL handled by a server to 0, 1, 2, or 3, distributing as uniformly as possible.</p> <p>While the <a href="http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M001123">documentation</a> for ruby's String#hash method says it will "return a hash based on the string‘s length and content," this clearly isn't the whole story. A given string's hash is not consistent across invocations of the interpreter:</p> <pre><code>$ irb ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 &gt; "foo".hash =&gt; 360517580588231756 ruby-1.9.2-p180 :002 &gt; ^D $ irb ruby-1.9.2-p180 :001 &gt; "foo".hash =&gt; -2716152678666510148 </code></pre> <p>This means a particular string's hash value may differ across, say, servers. Rails uses <code>String#hash</code> internally to map a URL path to one of four asset hosts (if the app's asset_host is <a href="http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/AssetTagHelper.html">so configured</a>), but this feature is a lot less efficient than it could be because of the cross-machine inconsistencies; different servers may map the same URL to different asset hosts, reducing the effectiveness of caches, clouding skies, cooling cups of tea prematurely, besmirching the reputations of otherwise fine programmers.</p> <p>Can you suggest an alternate hash function that could effectively and speedily distribute hashes across a typical app's URL space, preferably one that produces a Fixnum since, in the end, I'll want to map it into one of four asset hosts?</p>
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