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Fowler-Noll-Vo hash function

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Article is unsupported by any reliable sources. The article topic is not notable enough for reliable sources right now. It does not seem that this topic should be in the wikipedia at present- prime-based hash functions are two a penny. Moreover, this article links only to sources controlled by User:Landon_Curt_Noll and is largely written by him. Phil Spectre (talk) 23:21, 28 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I don't support deletion of this article. The article has 24 different editors (not counting bots) so I don't think it is fair to say that it "is largely written by [Landon_Curt_Noll]", indeed the article was not even originally created by Landon_Curt_Noll. Good non-cryptographic hash functions are not "two a penny", they are hard to design to get good results. Most hash function designers concentrate upon cryptographically strong hashes that are a lot slower. So there is definitely a place for the non-cryptographic alternatives that are faster. The FNV happens to fulfil a requirement in non-secure situations. The fasm project is well known and uses FNV for internal table lookups. From what I have seen the FNV hash has been around for some time now and seems to be quite well respected. HumphreyW (talk) 01:02, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The criteria for an article are WP:RS and WP:N, not whether you think it's a good hash. Notability is not earned by association: there is a precedent that being used by a notable project doesn't make the hash notable. And I looked at fasm but it doesn't even mention FNV. As for reliability, all of the sources are just Noll. Phil Spectre (talk) 01:12, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I didn't realise the fasm article does not mention it. But the authors site has it mentioned here. HumphreyW (talk) 01:57, 29 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]