i forgot to mention that i have always tested this particular version
of FNV; i believe the multiplicative constant is due to Fowler and Phong
Vo. to this day, i have no idea what Noll's improvement was; maybe he added
the xor. :]

	static unsigned long
	fnv(unsigned char *str)
	{
        	int c;
		unsigned long h = 0;

	        while (c = *str++)
 	               h = (h * 16777619) ^ c;

	        return h;
	}

oz
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