diff --git a/src/include/OpenImageIO/detail/farmhash.h b/src/include/OpenImageIO/detail/farmhash.h
index a1ea8bd2ae..6dbbe51f2c 100644
--- a/src/include/OpenImageIO/detail/farmhash.h
+++ b/src/include/OpenImageIO/detail/farmhash.h
@@ -239,21 +239,77 @@ STATIC_INLINE uint32_t Fetch32(const char *p) {
 
 #else
 
-template <typename T>
-STATIC_INLINE T FetchType(const char *p) {
-  T result = 0;
-  for (size_t i = 0; i < sizeof(T); i++)
-      reinterpret_cast<char *>(&result)[i] = p[i];
-  return result;
+#if defined(__cpp_lib_bit_cast) && __cpp_lib_bit_cast >= 201806L
+// C++20 compiler with constexpr support std::bitcast
+STATIC_INLINE uint64_t Fetch64(const char *p) {
+  struct BlockOfBytes {
+    char bytes[8];
+  };
+  BlockOfBytes bob{p[0],p[1],p[2],p[3],p[4],p[5],p[6],p[7]};
+  return std::bit_cast<uint64_t>(bob);
+}
+STATIC_INLINE uint32_t Fetch32(const char *p) {
+  struct BlockOfBytes {
+    char bytes[4];
+  };
+  BlockOfBytes bob{p[0],p[1],p[2],p[3]};
+  return std::bit_cast<uint32_t>(bob);
 }
 
+#else
+
+// constexpr supported for C++14,17 versions that manually load bytes and
+// bitshift into proper order for the unsigned integer.
+// NOTE: bigendian untested
 STATIC_INLINE uint64_t Fetch64(const char *p) {
-  return FetchType<uint64_t>(p); 
+    // Favor letting uint8_t construction to handle
+    // signed to unsigned conversion vs. uint64_t(p[0]&0xff)
+    uint8_t b0 = p[0];
+    uint8_t b1 = p[1];
+    uint8_t b2 = p[2];
+    uint8_t b3 = p[3];
+    uint8_t b4 = p[4];
+    uint8_t b5 = p[5];
+    uint8_t b6 = p[6];
+    uint8_t b7 = p[7];
+    return littleendian() ?
+        (uint64_t(b0))       | // LSB
+        (uint64_t(b1) <<  8) |
+        (uint64_t(b2) << 16) |
+        (uint64_t(b3) << 24) |
+        (uint64_t(b4) << 32) |
+        (uint64_t(b5) << 40) |
+        (uint64_t(b6) << 48) |
+        (uint64_t(b7) << 56)   // MSB
+      : // Big Endian byte order
+        (uint64_t(b0) << 56) |  // MSB
+        (uint64_t(b1) << 48) |
+        (uint64_t(b2) << 40) |
+        (uint64_t(b3) << 32) |
+        (uint64_t(b4) << 24) |
+        (uint64_t(b5) << 16) |
+        (uint64_t(b6) <<  8) |
+        (uint64_t(b7)) ;       // LSB
 }
 
 STATIC_INLINE uint32_t Fetch32(const char *p) {
-  return FetchType<uint32_t>(p); 
+    uint8_t b0 = p[0];
+    uint8_t b1 = p[1];
+    uint8_t b2 = p[2];
+    uint8_t b3 = p[3];
+    return littleendian() ?
+        (uint32_t(b0))       | // LSB
+        (uint32_t(b1) <<  8) |
+        (uint32_t(b2) << 16) |
+        (uint32_t(b3) << 24)   // MSB
+      : // Big Endian byte order
+        (uint32_t(b0) << 24) | // MSB
+        (uint32_t(b1) << 16) |
+        (uint32_t(b2) <<  8) |
+        (uint32_t(b3));        // LSB
 }
+#endif
+
 
 // devices don't seem to have bswap_64() or bswap_32()
 template<typename T>
diff --git a/src/include/OpenImageIO/string_view.h b/src/include/OpenImageIO/string_view.h
index 2381dc3cd0..05afd0c830 100644
--- a/src/include/OpenImageIO/string_view.h
+++ b/src/include/OpenImageIO/string_view.h
@@ -106,9 +106,8 @@ class basic_string_view {
         : m_chars(chars), m_len(len) { }
 
     /// Construct from char*, use strlen to determine length.
-    OIIO_CONSTEXPR17 basic_string_view(const CharT* chars) noexcept
-        : m_chars(chars), m_len(chars ? Traits::length(chars) : 0) { }
-    // N.B. char_traits::length() is constexpr starting with C++17.
+    constexpr basic_string_view(const CharT* chars) noexcept
+        : m_chars(chars), m_len(chars ? cestrlen(chars) : 0) { }
 
     /// Construct from std::string. Remember that a string_view doesn't have
     /// its own copy of the characters, so don't use the `string_view` after
@@ -431,6 +430,20 @@ class basic_string_view {
         return last;
     }
 
+    // Guaranteed constexpr length of a C string
+    static constexpr size_t cestrlen(const charT* chars) {
+#if OIIO_CPLUSPLUS_VERSION >= 17
+        return Traits::length(chars);
+#else
+        if (chars == nullptr)
+            return 0;
+        size_t len = 0;
+        while (chars[len] != 0)
+            len++;
+        return len;
+#endif
+    }
+
     class traits_eq {
     public:
         constexpr traits_eq (CharT ch) noexcept : ch(ch) {}
diff --git a/src/libutil/strutil_test.cpp b/src/libutil/strutil_test.cpp
index f940f05be3..02195bab24 100644
--- a/src/libutil/strutil_test.cpp
+++ b/src/libutil/strutil_test.cpp
@@ -350,6 +350,9 @@ test_hash()
     OIIO_CHECK_EQUAL(strhash(std::string("foo")), 6150913649986995171);
     OIIO_CHECK_EQUAL(strhash(string_view("foo")), 6150913649986995171);
     OIIO_CHECK_EQUAL(strhash(""), 0);  // empty string hashes to 0
+    // Check longer hash and ensure that it's really constexpr
+    constexpr size_t hash = Strutil::strhash("much longer string");
+    OIIO_CHECK_EQUAL(hash, 16257490369375554819ULL);
 }