Re:Geohash: text representation allows you to sort locations...
by hydrozen on Sunday August 24, 2014 @07:20PM
(#8219977)
I believe by default it uses the C implementation which you can read here: https://github.com/davetroy/geohash/blob/master/ext/geohash_...
It wraps around a java jar file. I can't study the code to see how it's implemented.