Re: Hashing strings

Gerard Samuel wrote: ... >>> Im trying to determine if md5() would be the fastest, >>> *cheapest* solution. ... > What Im looking for is something where the generated hashes can > be reproduced. > For example, md5('foo') today, will be equal to md5('foo') tomorrow. > Thanks AFAIK crc32() is the fastest hashing function in PHP. I don't have actual results on hand still, but I created a filesystem plugin that auto-generates hashes for each file in a directory. crc32() was faster than md5() and sha1(). FYI the benchmarking that I did was for a Windows XP system... YMMV -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins

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