support other consistent hashing algorithms ?

[filippog]

hi, as pointed out in the README ports and "labels" are not taken into consideration when running the consistent hashing algo (as #38 found out too) I think it'd make sense to support other hashing implementations, e.g. fnv1a would make carbonate compatible with https://github.com/grobian/carbon-c-relay which in turn would allow hashing ip+port, what do you think?

[jssjr]

I'd be happy to field a PR to make the hash algorithm pluggable. This isn't something I personally have a use case for, but it does seem really handy.

[halcyonardency]

This would be super awesome to support fnv1a_32 and fnv1a_64 out of carbon-c-relay.

https://github.com/grobian/carbon-c-relay/blob/master/fnv1a.h

[halcyonardency]

I think I can probably git a PR submitted. There's a few examples online.

• https://gist.github.com/vaiorabbit/5670985
• https://github.com/prasanthj/hasher/blob/master/src/main/java/hasher/FNV1a.java

I'll find some cycles in the next week or two and see if we can't make this happen.

[deniszh]

@xyntrix - did you succeed in that PR by any chance? I want to do that same :)

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