benchmarking Perl client hash functions

[Russ Garrett]

Larry Leszczynski wrote:

>I don't think it would be a big deal to require String::CRC32, it's small
>and trivial to build.  Re: your previous post, I think there could some
>advantages to having all the different language clients using the same
>hashing scheme.
>  
>
That would be nice - at the moment we have to make special provision for 
our java-PHP communication using memcached so that it all goes to the 
same server (although we're only using one server currently).

Russ