- * Given a key (any string) and the number of lots, returns a slot number (an integer from
- * the [0..($slots-1)] range). This is used for a global limit on the number of instances of
- * a given type that can acquire a lock. The hashing is deterministic so that
+ * Given a key (any string) and the number of lots, returns a slot key (a prefix with a suffix
+ * integer from the [0..($slots-1)] range). This is used for a global limit on the number of
+ * instances of a given type that can acquire a lock. The hashing is deterministic so that