Making ByteString.bytes internal, to allow faster access to the raw bytes.

Fixing ByteString.GetHashCode to create good hash code.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/ProtocolBuffers/ByteString.cs b/src/ProtocolBuffers/ByteString.cs
index 78b946bb..bf02ea6e 100644
--- a/src/ProtocolBuffers/ByteString.cs
+++ b/src/ProtocolBuffers/ByteString.cs
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers {
 
     private static readonly ByteString empty = new ByteString(new byte[0]);
 
-    private readonly byte[] bytes;
+    internal readonly byte[] bytes;
 
     /// <summary>
     /// Constructs a new ByteString from the given byte array. The array is
@@ -154,10 +154,11 @@ namespace Google.ProtocolBuffers {
     }
 
     public override int GetHashCode() {
-      int ret = 23;
-      foreach (byte b in bytes) {
-        ret = (ret << 8) | b;
-      }
+      int ret = 23;

+	  for (int i = 0; i < bytes.Length; i++)

+	  {

+		  ret = (ret * 23) ^ bytes[i];

+	  }

       return ret;
     }