Basically if one overloads operator == they should also overload hashCode and generate a 'good' hash, but Dart doesn't offer any utilities to do so. This means that many users will generate hashes with poor distributions.

The JS string class internally uses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_hash_function, it would be great if there were a public API for this.