* custom, stateful strategy we may define (e.g. any kind of strategy that would depend on user
     * input).
     */
    int ordinal();
  }

  /** The bit set of the BloomFilter (not necessarily power of 2!) */
  private final LockFreeBitArray bits;

  /** Number of hashes per element */
  private final int numHashFunctions;

  /** The funnel to translate Ts to bytes */