BSD license compatible hash algorithm?

[Brooks Davis]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:30:40PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	Just wondering if anyone knew of a good BSD license compatible key-based 
> hash placement / retrieval algorithm that was available anywhere.
> 	I'm looking for a reliable way to lookup objects to see if a given action 
> would be performed in my revised pkg_install(1), to thus efficiently 
> pre-plan out the installation dependencies and fully utilize 
> multiprocessing capabilities of contemporary machines / eliminate duplicate 
> dependency install requirements.
> 	I know I can use tree structures or hash(3), but I want to avoid trees 
> (inefficient with large data sets of course) and I was looking for a 
> non-BDB based solution (for right now, with this given structure as I don't 
> want to write everything to disk). Later on it might be a good idea to 
> cache the results using BDB on disk, but for now I was just wondering if 
> there were any non-BDB based hashing solutions that anyone knew of.

We imported hash(9) from Open/NetBSD recently.  It may do what you want.

-- Brooks
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