From e7dbda821d362e5b427cdb0592150d9d9f9d042e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ray Greenwell <ray@threerings.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:14:01 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Removed pointless 8-char optimization. Now it is more useful
 for this to hash identically as in Java.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@5753 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1
---
 src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as b/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
index 991cf5c93..ff7f49d53 100644
--- a/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
+++ b/src/as/com/threerings/util/StringUtil.as
@@ -44,10 +44,9 @@ public class StringUtil
     {
         var code :int = 0;
         if (str != null) {
-            // sample at most 8 chars
-            var lastChar :int = Math.min(8, str.length);
-            for (var ii :int = 0; ii < lastChar; ii++) {
-                code = code * 31 + str.charCodeAt(ii);
+            // hash identically to Java's String.hashCode(), for various reasons
+            for (var ii :int = 0; ii < str.length; ii++) {
+                code = 31 * code + str.charCodeAt(ii);
             }
         }
         return code;