HashCode
Several years ago, I had written my own little hashcode for my web search spider. I checked the performance on my 64 bit system, and to put it mildly, it was horrible. I was talking to Dave Wanta this week and he reminded me of the Hashing support in .NET. I had completely forgotten about it. I yanked out my hash code and used the hasing in .NET. I got better performance using the hashcode in .NET when inserting into the database. I believe that my code did not provide a good spread to effectively use the database indexes that I had setup. By going to the .NET hash support, I think I was able to get a better spread for my indexing system and was able to get rid of a database hotspot. Right now, I am trying to see how many records it will support.