diff --git a/basis/checksums/xxhash/authors.txt b/basis/checksums/xxhash/authors.txt
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+John Benediktsson
diff --git a/basis/checksums/xxhash/summary.txt b/basis/checksums/xxhash/summary.txt
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+xxHash checksum algorithm
diff --git a/basis/checksums/xxhash/xxhash-docs.factor b/basis/checksums/xxhash/xxhash-docs.factor
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+USING: help.markup help.syntax ;
+IN: checksums.xxhash
+
+HELP: xxhash
+{ $class-description "xxHash 32-bit checksum algorithm." } ;
+
+ARTICLE: "checksums.xxhash" "XxHash checksum"
+"xxHash is a non-cryptographic hash function suitable for general hash-based lookup."
+{ $subsections xxhash } ;
+
+ABOUT: "checksums.xxhash"
diff --git a/basis/checksums/xxhash/xxhash-tests.factor b/basis/checksums/xxhash/xxhash-tests.factor
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+USING: byte-arrays checksums tools.test ;
+IN: checksums.xxhash
+
+{ 1584409650 } [ "asdf" 0 <xxhash> checksum-bytes ] unit-test
+{ 4257502458 } [ "Hello World!" 12345 <xxhash> checksum-bytes ] unit-test
+
+{ 1584409650 } [ "asdf" >byte-array 0 <xxhash> checksum-bytes ] unit-test
+{ 4257502458 } [ "Hello World!" >byte-array 12345 <xxhash> checksum-bytes ] unit-test
diff --git a/basis/checksums/xxhash/xxhash.factor b/basis/checksums/xxhash/xxhash.factor
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+! Copyright (C) 2014 John Benediktsson.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+
+USING: accessors alien alien.c-types alien.data byte-arrays
+checksums combinators generalizations grouping io.binary kernel
+locals math math.bitwise math.ranges sequences ;
+
+IN: checksums.xxhash
+
+CONSTANT: prime1 2654435761
+CONSTANT: prime2 2246822519
+CONSTANT: prime3 3266489917
+CONSTANT: prime4 668265263
+CONSTANT: prime5 374761393
+
+TUPLE: xxhash seed ;
+
+C: <xxhash> xxhash
+
+M:: xxhash checksum-bytes ( bytes checksum -- value )
+    checksum seed>> :> seed
+    bytes length :> len
+
+    len 16 >= [
+
+        seed prime1 w+ prime2 w+
+        seed prime2 w+
+        seed
+        seed prime1 w-
+
+        bytes byte-array? little-endian? and [
+            0 len dup 16 mod - 4 - 4 <range>
+            [ bytes <displaced-alien> uint deref ] map
+        ] [
+            bytes len 16 mod head-slice* 4 <groups> [ le> ] map
+        ] if
+
+        4 <groups> [
+            first4
+            [ prime2 w* w+ 13 bitroll-32 prime1 w* ]
+            4 napply
+        ] each
+
+        {
+            [ 1 bitroll-32 ]
+            [ 7 bitroll-32 ]
+            [ 12 bitroll-32 ]
+            [ 18 bitroll-32 ]
+        } spread w+ w+ w+
+    ] [
+        seed prime5 w+
+    ] if
+
+    len w+
+
+    bytes len 16 mod tail-slice*
+    dup length dup 4 mod - cut-slice [
+        4 <groups> [
+            le> prime3 w* w+ 17 bitroll-32 prime4 w*
+        ] each
+    ] [
+        [
+            prime5 w* w+ 11 bitroll-32 prime1 w*
+        ] each
+    ] bi*
+
+    [ -15 shift ] [ bitxor ] bi prime2 w*
+    [ -13 shift ] [ bitxor ] bi prime3 w*
+    [ -16 shift ] [ bitxor ] bi ;
+
+INSTANCE: xxhash checksum