Text p 484 Execise 3.4.33 A bad string hash function. Consider the following hashCode() implementation

for String, which was used in early versions of Java:

public int hashCode() { int hash = 0; int skip = Math.max(1, length() / 8); for (int i = 0; i < length(); i += skip) hash = (hash * 37) + charAt(i); return hash; } 

Explain why you think the designers chose this implementation

and then

explain why you think it was abandoned in favor

of the one in the previous exercise (p.484 Ex 3.4.32)