Have a good hash function for a C++ hash table?

Question

I am in need of a performance-oriented hash function implementation in C++ for a hash table that I will be coding. I looked around already and only found questions asking wh

Answer 1

Since C++11, C++ has provided a std::hash< string >( string ). That is likely to be an efficient hashing function that provides a good distribution of hash-codes for most strings.

Furthermore, if you are thinking of implementing a hash-table, you should now be considering using a C++ std::unordered_map instead.