[Q] 16-bit hashes?

[kneelian]

There may be some exploratory or practical merit in evaluating 16-bit hashes as well. A lot of microcontrollers, embedded devices etc. are running lesser bitness CPUs than 32 bits, and there are very few publicly available good hashing algorithms for those devices. Searching their whole domains is also much easier than even for 32-bit hashes.

[skeeto]

Your asking about it gave me some ideas, and I've just pushed a new 16-bit hash prospector. 16-bit hashes are sufficiently different that rather than extend the existing prospector I wrote a new one dedicated to 16-bit hashes.

[Logan007]

@skeeto Impressive attitude, reminds me of some sports brand's slogan: Just do it! 👍

[nigels-com]

These invertable hash functions are something I seem to be revisiting once in a while.
So glad to have a good 16-bit hash served up on a plate like this, much appreciated!
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/604471.604490