XPost: comp.arch   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Torben Fgidius Mogensen wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > Having a fast hash instruction might help: It would take two numbers   
   > as arguments and produce a single number that is a hash of the pair.   
   > It would not need to be cryptographically strong, just good enough for   
   > hash tables.   
      
   One of my favorite non-cryptographic hash functions is CRC32, which   
   might be useful to do fast for other reasons.   
      
   Then again, VAX has a CRC instruction, already.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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