Re: Hashing strings

Gerard Samuel wrote:

Im currently using md5() to hash strings to be used, as an id for a cache system. Im trying to determine if md5() would be the fastest, *cheapest* solution. The only native php functions that I know of are md5() and sha1(). Are there any other native php functions that hash strings? Thanks I believe crc32 is faster, but it's not that hard to change something in the code, and still get the same hash, so I'm not sure if it'd be such a great choice