Hi,
I'm curious why the hashing function that these filters use is based on
SHA-1 (which is relatively slow to compute) instead of a bunch of fast
and simple non-cryptographic functions such as Jenkins' hash (see
http://bretm.home.comcast.net/hash/7.html for the evaluation of Jenkins
hash).
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Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki <><
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