[jira] Created: (HBASE-1136) HashFunction inadvertently destroys some randomness

[Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)]

HashFunction inadvertently destroys some randomness
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                 Key: HBASE-1136
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1136
             Project: Hadoop HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis


the code

      for (int i = 0, initval = 0; i < nbHash; i++) {
        initval = result[i] = Math.abs(hashFunction.hash(b, initval) % 
maxValue);
      }

restricts initval for the next hash to the [0, maxValue) range of the hash 
indexes returned.  This is suboptimal, particularly for larger nbHash and 
smaller maxValue.  Instead, use:

      for (int i = 0, initval = 0; i < nbHash; i++) {
        initval = hashFunction.hash(b, initval);
        result[i] = Math.abs(initval) % maxValue;
      }


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