From: Christoph Rippel <crippel@...>
Date: 2000-12-30T08:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:8316] Re: speedup of anagram finder

>        key = 1
>        word.each_byte {|s| key *= asc2prime[s]}
Hm,

isn't something like

key = 0
word.each_byte do |s|
    key << 5  # multiply by 32
    if  s < 97
          key+= s - 64
    else
          key+= s - 96
    end
end

much simpler (and  faster)?

Christoph