C# hashcode for array of ints
Not very clever, but sufficient for most practical purposes:
EDIT: changed due to comment of Henk Holterman, thanks for that.
int hc=array.Length;
for(int i=0;i<array.Length;++i)
{
hc=unchecked(hc*314159 +array[i]);
}
return hc;
If you need something more sophisticated, look here.
For an array of values generally between -1000 and 1000, I would probably use something like this:
static int GetHashCode(int[] values)
{
int result = 0;
int shift = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < values.Length; i++)
{
shift = (shift + 11) % 21;
result ^= (values[i]+1024) << shift;
}
return result;
}
You may use CRC32 checksum. Here is the code:
[CLSCompliant(false)]
public class Crc32 {
uint[] table = new uint[256];
uint[] Table { get { return table; } }
public Crc32() {
MakeCrcTable();
}
void MakeCrcTable() {
for (uint n = 0; n < 256; n++) {
uint value = n;
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
if ((value & 1) != 0)
value = 0xedb88320 ^ (value >> 1);
else
value = value >> 1;
}
Table[n] = value;
}
}
public uint UpdateCrc(uint crc, byte[] buffer, int length) {
uint result = crc;
for (int n = 0; n < length; n++) {
result = Table[(result ^ buffer[n]) & 0xff] ^ (result >> 8);
}
return result;
}
public uint Calculate(Stream stream) {
long pos = stream.Position;
const int size = 0x32000;
byte[] buf = new byte[size];
int bytes = 0;
uint result = 0xffffffff;
do {
bytes = stream.Read(buf, 0, size);
result = UpdateCrc(result, buf, bytes);
}
while (bytes == size);
stream.Position = pos;
return ~result;
}
}