A fast hash function for string in C#

Question

I want to hash a string of length up-to 30. What will be the best idea to do that if time is my concern. The function will be called over 100 million times. currently I am u

Answer 1

I have played with Paul Hsieh's implementations, and seem to be fast with little collisions (for my scenarios anyway)

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