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> Well, I'd say a hash that has no need whatsoever to be tamper-proof (no attackers, ever) and cares only about speed is a checksum -- so maybe a terminology issue.

Cityhash, spookyhash, and murmurhash are three modern non-cryptographic hash functions which explicitly don't call themselves "checksums".

Indeed, we say "hashtable", not "checksumtable".




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