Re: Hashing on System.Address

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

Now more "theoretically", for my bit-based hash function, output 
dispersion is clearly dependent on input dispersion. I tested it with 
text strings (Latin-1) and it did well. But for skewed domains like 
memory addresses it may not work as good. In these cases it is indeed 
smarter to use whatever knowledge you have of the skewdness e.g. cut 
out invariant bits. Note the two methods can work in tandem: first cut 
out invariant bits, then use my function to zoom in or out to the 
output size.