hashabler: Principled, cross-platform & extensible hashing of types, including an implementation of the FNV-1a algorithm.

This package is a rewrite of the hashable library by Milan Straka and Johan Tibell, having the following goals:

• Extensibility; it should be easy to implement a new hashing algorithm on any Hashable type, for instance if one needed more hash bits

• Honest hashing of values, and principled hashing of algebraic data types (see e.g. hashable issues #74 and #30)

• Cross-platform consistent hash values, with a versioning guarantee. Where possible we ensure morally identical data hashes to indentical values regardless of processor word size and endianness.

• Make implementing identical hash routines in other languages as painless as possible. We provide an implementation of a simple hashing algorithm (FNV-1a) and make an effort define Hashable instances in a way that is well-documented and sensible, so that e.g. one can (hopefully) easily implement string hashing routine in JavaScript that will match the way we hash strings here.

Versioning: Except for instances where we specifically note that we make no promise of consistency, changes to hash values entail a major version number bump.

Modules

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Flags

Automatic Flags

Name	Description	Default
integer-gmp	Are we using integer-gmp to provide fast Integer instances?	Enabled
dev	To build tests, executables and benchmarks do `configure -fdev --enable-tests` and run the built executables by hand.	Disabled

Use -f <flag> to enable a flag, or -f -<flag> to disable that flag. More info

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