The review of std.hash package

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:32:34 +0200
schrieb "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>:

> On Tuesday, 7 August 2012 at 17:39:50 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> > std.hash.hash is a new module for Phobos defining an uniform 
> > interface for hashes and checksums. It also provides some 
> > useful helper functions to deal with this new API.
> 
> Is it too late to ask to include MurmurHash 2 and/or 3? It's 
> public domain, and great for things like hash tables.
> 
> You can steal some code from here:
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/blob/master/utils/digest.d
> https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/blob/master/utils/digest_murmurhash3.d
> 

To be honest I didn't even know that MurmurHash can be used
incrementally. I could port that code soon, but I think it's
best to do it after the review.
After we have formalized a common API adding new hashes probably won't
require a full review. It should be possible to do that as a pull
request.