nodejs consistent hash library

Question

base on the information by STFW, guess that CRC32, KETAMA are almost best consistent hash algorithms currently, but I didn't found any libraries implement them.

Answer 1

I've written a JavaScript CRC32 implementation for hashing a string:

var crc32 = (function() {
    function utf8encode(str) {
        var utf8CharCodes = [];

        for (var i = 0, len = str.length, c; i < len; ++i) {
            c = str.charCodeAt(i);
            if (c < 128) {
                utf8CharCodes.push(c);
            } else if (c < 2048) {
                utf8CharCodes.push((c >> 6) | 192, (c & 63) | 128);
            } else {
                utf8CharCodes.push((c >> 12) | 224, ((c >> 6) & 63) | 128, (c & 63) | 128);
            }
        }
        return utf8CharCodes;
    }

    var cachedCrcTable = null;

    function buildCRCTable() {
        var table = [];
        for (var i = 0, j, crc; i < 256; ++i) {
            crc = i;
            j = 8;
            while (j--) {
                if ((crc & 1) == 1) {
                    crc = (crc >>> 1) ^ 0xEDB88320;
                } else {
                    crc >>>= 1;
                }
            }
            table[i] = crc >>> 0;
        }
        return table;
    }

    function getCrcTable() {
        if (!cachedCrcTable) {
            cachedCrcTable = buildCRCTable();
        }
        return cachedCrcTable;
    }

    return function(str) {
        var utf8CharCodes = utf8encode(str), crc = -1, crcTable = getCrcTable();
        for (var i = 0, len = utf8CharCodes.length, y; i < len; ++i) {
            y = (crc ^ utf8CharCodes[i]) & 0xFF;
            crc = (crc >>> 8) ^ crcTable[y];
        }
        return (crc ^ -1) >>> 0;
    };
})();

alert(crc32("A test string").toString(16));