diff --git a/Directory.Build.props b/Directory.Build.props
index e722ccfbc0..cc459eb3d3 100644
--- a/Directory.Build.props
+++ b/Directory.Build.props
@@ -18,5 +18,6 @@
     <PackageSigningCertName>MicrosoftNuGet</PackageSigningCertName>
     <PublicSign Condition="'$(OS)' != 'Windows_NT'">true</PublicSign>
     <TreatWarningsAsErrors>true</TreatWarningsAsErrors>
+    <LangVersion>7.2</LangVersion>
   </PropertyGroup>
 </Project>
diff --git a/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/AsciiKeyedJumpTable.cs b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/AsciiKeyedJumpTable.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bce1afa71e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/AsciiKeyedJumpTable.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,172 @@
+// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+
+namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
+{
+    // An optimized jump table that trades a small amount of additional memory for
+    // hash-table like performance.
+    //
+    // The optimization here is to use the first character of the known entries
+    // as a 'key' in the hash table in the space of A-Z. This gives us a maximum
+    // of 26 buckets (hence the reduced memory)
+    internal class AsciiKeyedJumpTable : JumpTable
+    {
+        public static bool TryCreate(
+            int defaultDestination,
+            int exitDestination,
+            List<(string text, int destination)> entries,
+            out JumpTable result)
+        {
+            result = null;
+
+            // First we group string by their uppercase letter. If we see a string
+            // that starts with a non-ASCII letter 
+            var map = new Dictionary<char, List<(string text, int destination)>>();
+
+            for (var i = 0; i < entries.Count; i++)
+            {
+                if (entries[i].text.Length == 0)
+                {
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                if (!IsAscii(entries[i].text))
+                {
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                var first = ToUpperAscii(entries[i].text[0]);
+                if (first < 'A' || first > 'Z')
+                {
+                    // Not a letter
+                    return false;
+                }
+
+                if (!map.TryGetValue(first, out var matches))
+                {
+                    matches = new List<(string text, int destination)>();
+                    map.Add(first, matches);
+                }
+
+                matches.Add(entries[i]);
+            }
+
+            var next = 0;
+            var ordered = new(string text, int destination)[entries.Count];
+            var indexes = new int[26 * 2];
+            for (var i = 0; i < 26; i++)
+            {
+                indexes[i * 2] = next;
+
+                var length = 0;
+                if (map.TryGetValue((char)('A' + i), out var matches))
+                {
+                    length += matches.Count;
+                    for (var j = 0; j < matches.Count; j++)
+                    {
+                        ordered[next++] = matches[j];
+                    }
+                }
+
+                indexes[i * 2 + 1] = length;
+            }
+
+            result = new AsciiKeyedJumpTable(defaultDestination, exitDestination, ordered, indexes);
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        private readonly int _defaultDestination;
+        private readonly int _exitDestination;
+        private readonly (string text, int destination)[] _entries;
+        private readonly int[] _indexes;
+
+        private AsciiKeyedJumpTable(
+            int defaultDestination,
+            int exitDestination,
+            (string text, int destination)[] entries,
+            int[] indexes)
+        {
+            _defaultDestination = defaultDestination;
+            _exitDestination = exitDestination;
+            _entries = entries;
+            _indexes = indexes;
+        }
+
+        public override unsafe int GetDestination(string path, PathSegment segment)
+        {
+            if (segment.Length == 0)
+            {
+                return _exitDestination;
+            }
+
+            var c = path[segment.Start];
+            if (!IsAscii(c))
+            {
+                return _defaultDestination;
+            }
+
+            c = ToUpperAscii(c);
+            if (c < 'A' || c > 'Z')
+            {
+                // Character is non-ASCII or not a letter. Since we know that all of the entries are ASCII
+                // and begin with a letter this is not a match.
+                return _defaultDestination;
+            }
+
+            var offset = (c - 'A') * 2;
+            var start = _indexes[offset];
+            var length = _indexes[offset + 1];
+
+            var entries = _entries;
+            for (var i = start; i < start + length; i++)
+            {
+                var text = entries[i].text;
+                if (segment.Length == text.Length &&
+                    string.Compare(
+                        path,
+                        segment.Start,
+                        text,
+                        0,
+                        segment.Length,
+                        StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0)
+                {
+                    return entries[i].destination;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return _defaultDestination;
+        }
+
+        internal static bool IsAscii(char c)
+        {
+            // ~0x7F is a bit mask that checks for bits that won't be set in an ASCII character.
+            // ASCII only uses the lowest 7 bits.
+            return (c & ~0x7F) == 0;
+        }
+
+        internal static bool IsAscii(string text)
+        {
+            for (var i = 0; i < text.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var c = text[i];
+                if (!IsAscii(c))
+                {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return true;
+        }
+
+        internal static char ToUpperAscii(char c)
+        {
+            // 0x5F can be used to convert a character to uppercase ascii (assuming it's a letter).
+            // This works because lowercase ASCII chars are exactly 32 less than their uppercase
+            // counterparts.
+            return (char)(c & 0x5F);
+        }
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/CustomHashTableJumpTable.cs b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/CustomHashTableJumpTable.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bbffc14a80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/CustomHashTableJumpTable.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
+using System.Linq;
+
+namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
+{
+    internal class CustomHashTableJumpTable : JumpTable
+    {
+        // Similar to HashHelpers list of primes, but truncated. We don't expect
+        // incredibly large numbers to be useful here.
+        private static readonly int[] Primes = new int[]
+        {
+            3, 7, 11, 17, 23, 29, 37, 47, 59, 
+            71, 89, 107, 131, 163, 197, 239, 293, 
+            353, 431, 521, 631, 761, 919, 1103, 1327, 
+            1597, 1931, 2333, 2801, 3371, 4049, 4861, 5839, 
+            7013, 8419, 10103,
+        };
+
+        private readonly int _defaultDestination;
+        private readonly int _exitDestination;
+
+        private readonly int _prime;
+        private readonly int[] _buckets;
+        private readonly Entry[] _entries;
+
+        public CustomHashTableJumpTable(
+            int defaultDestination,
+            int exitDestination,
+            (string text, int destination)[] entries)
+        {
+            _defaultDestination = defaultDestination;
+            _exitDestination = exitDestination;
+
+            var map = new Dictionary<int, List<(string text, int destination)>>();
+
+            for (var i = 0; i < entries.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var key = GetKey(entries[i].text, new PathSegment(0, entries[i].text.Length));
+                if (!map.TryGetValue(key, out var matches))
+                {
+                    matches = new List<(string text, int destination)>();
+                    map.Add(key, matches);
+                }
+
+                matches.Add(entries[i]);
+            }
+
+            _prime = GetPrime(map.Count);
+            _buckets = new int[_prime + 1];
+            _entries = new Entry[map.Sum(kvp => kvp.Value.Count)];
+
+            var next = 0;
+            foreach (var group in map.GroupBy(kvp => kvp.Key % _prime).OrderBy(g => g.Key))
+            {
+                _buckets[group.Key] = next;
+
+                foreach (var array in group)
+                {
+                    for (var i = 0; i < array.Value.Count; i++)
+                    {
+                        _entries[next++] = new Entry(array.Value[i].text, array.Value[i].destination);
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            Debug.Assert(next == _entries.Length);
+            _buckets[_prime] = next;
+
+            var last = 0;
+            for (var i = 0; i < _buckets.Length; i++)
+            {
+                if (_buckets[i] == 0)
+                {
+                    _buckets[i] = last;
+                }
+                else
+                {
+                    last = _buckets[i];
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        public int Find(int key)
+        {
+            return key % _prime;
+        }
+
+        private static int GetPrime(int capacity)
+        {
+            for (int i = 0; i < Primes.Length; i++)
+            {
+                int prime = Primes[i];
+                if (prime >= capacity)
+                {
+                    return prime;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return Primes[Primes.Length - 1];
+        }
+
+        public override unsafe int GetDestination(string path, PathSegment segment)
+        {
+            if (segment.Length == 0)
+            {
+                return _exitDestination;
+            }
+
+            var key = GetKey(path, segment);
+            var index = Find(key);
+
+            var start = _buckets[index];
+            var end = _buckets[index + 1];
+
+            var entries = _entries.AsSpan(start, end - start);
+            for (var i = 0; i < entries.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var text = entries[i].Text;
+                if (text.Length == segment.Length &&
+                    string.Compare(
+                        path,
+                        segment.Start,
+                        text,
+                        0,
+                        segment.Length,
+                        StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0)
+                {
+                    return entries[i].Destination;
+                }
+            }
+
+            return _defaultDestination;
+        }
+
+        // Builds a hashcode from segment (first four characters converted to 8bit ASCII)
+        private static unsafe int GetKey(string path, PathSegment segment)
+        {
+            fixed (char* p = path)
+            {
+                switch (path.Length)
+                {
+                    case 0:
+                        {
+                            return 0;
+                        }
+
+                    case 1:
+                        {
+                            return
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 0) & 0x5F) << (0 * 8));
+                        }
+
+                    case 2:
+                        {
+                            return
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 0) & 0x5F) << (0 * 8)) |
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 1) & 0x5F) << (1 * 8));
+                        }
+
+                    case 3:
+                        {
+                            return
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 0) & 0x5F) << (0 * 8)) |
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 1) & 0x5F) << (1 * 8)) |
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 2) & 0x5F) << (2 * 8));
+                        }
+
+                    default:
+                        {
+                            return
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 0) & 0x5F) << (0 * 8)) |
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 1) & 0x5F) << (1 * 8)) |
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 2) & 0x5F) << (2 * 8)) |
+                                ((*(p + segment.Start + 3) & 0x5F) << (3 * 8));
+                        }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        private readonly struct Entry
+        {
+            public readonly string Text;
+            public readonly int Destination;
+
+            public Entry(string text, int destination)
+            {
+                Text = text;
+                Destination = destination;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/DictionaryLookupJumpTable.cs b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/DictionaryLookupJumpTable.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3e0f75716b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/DictionaryLookupJumpTable.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+// Copyright (c) .NET Foundation. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using System;
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Linq;
+
+namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
+{
+    internal class DictionaryLookupJumpTable : JumpTable
+    {
+        private readonly int _defaultDestination;
+        private readonly int _exitDestination;
+        private readonly Dictionary<int, (string text, int destination)[]> _store;
+
+        public DictionaryLookupJumpTable(
+            int defaultDestination,
+            int exitDestination,
+            (string text, int destination)[] entries)
+        {
+            _defaultDestination = defaultDestination;
+            _exitDestination = exitDestination;
+
+            var map = new Dictionary<int, List<(string text, int destination)>>();
+
+            for (var i = 0; i < entries.Length; i++)
+            {
+                var key = GetKey(entries[i].text.AsSpan());
+                if (!map.TryGetValue(key, out var matches))
+                {
+                    matches = new List<(string text, int destination)>();
+                    map.Add(key, matches);
+                }
+
+                matches.Add(entries[i]);
+            }
+
+            _store = map.ToDictionary(kvp => kvp.Key, kvp => kvp.Value.ToArray());
+        }
+
+        public override int GetDestination(string path, PathSegment segment)
+        {
+            if (segment.Length == 0)
+            {
+                return _exitDestination;
+            }
+
+            var key = GetKey(path.AsSpan(segment.Start, segment.Length));
+            if (_store.TryGetValue(key, out var entries))
+            {
+                for (var i = 0; i < entries.Length; i++)
+                {
+                    var text = entries[i].text;
+                    if (text.Length == segment.Length &&
+                        string.Compare(
+                            path,
+                            segment.Start,
+                            text,
+                            0,
+                            segment.Length,
+                            StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase) == 0)
+                    {
+                        return entries[i].destination;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+
+            return _defaultDestination;
+        }
+
+        private static int GetKey(string path, PathSegment segment)
+        {
+            return GetKey(path.AsSpan(segment.Start, segment.Length));
+        }
+
+        /// builds a key from the last byte of length + first 3 characters of text (converted to ascii)
+        private static int GetKey(ReadOnlySpan<char> span)
+        {
+            var length = (byte)(span.Length & 0xFF);
+
+            byte c0, c1, c2;
+            switch (length)
+            {
+                case 0:
+                    {
+                        return 0;
+                    }
+
+                case 1:
+                    {
+                        c0 = (byte)(span[0] & 0x5F);
+                        return (length << 24) | (c0 << 16);
+                    }
+
+                case 2:
+                    {
+                        c0 = (byte)(span[0] & 0x5F);
+                        c1 = (byte)(span[1] & 0x5F);
+                        return (length << 24) | (c0 << 16) | (c1 << 8);
+                    }
+
+                default:
+                    {
+                        c0 = (byte)(span[0] & 0x5F);
+                        c1 = (byte)(span[1] & 0x5F);
+                        c2 = (byte)(span[2] & 0x5F);
+                        return (length << 24) | (c0 << 16) | (c1 << 8) | c2;
+                    }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/JumpTableMultipleEntryBenchmark.cs b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/JumpTableMultipleEntryBenchmark.cs
index 87d70ae74d..731334c1c1 100644
--- a/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/JumpTableMultipleEntryBenchmark.cs
+++ b/benchmarks/Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Performance/Matchers/JumpTableMultipleEntryBenchmark.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.Diagnostics;
 using BenchmarkDotNet.Attributes;
 
 namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
@@ -14,9 +15,12 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
 
         private JumpTable _linearSearch;
         private JumpTable _dictionary;
+        private JumpTable _ascii;
+        private JumpTable _dictionaryLookup;
+        private JumpTable _customHashTable;
 
         // All factors of 100 to support sampling
-        [Params(2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100)]
+        [Params(2, 4, 5, 10, 25)]
         public int Count;
 
         [GlobalSetup]
@@ -44,6 +48,9 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
 
             _linearSearch = new LinearSearchJumpTable(0, -1, entries.ToArray());
             _dictionary = new DictionaryJumpTable(0, -1, entries.ToArray());
+            Debug.Assert(AsciiKeyedJumpTable.TryCreate(0, -1, entries, out _ascii));
+            _dictionaryLookup = new DictionaryLookupJumpTable(0, -1, entries.ToArray());
+            _customHashTable = new CustomHashTableJumpTable(0, -1, entries.ToArray());
         }
 
         // This baseline is similar to SingleEntryJumpTable. We just want
@@ -104,6 +111,51 @@ namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Routing.Matchers
             return destination;
         }
 
+        [Benchmark(OperationsPerInvoke = 100)]
+        public int Ascii()
+        {
+            var strings = _strings;
+            var segments = _segments;
+
+            var destination = 0;
+            for (var i = 0; i < strings.Length; i++)
+            {
+                destination = _ascii.GetDestination(strings[i], segments[i]);
+            }
+
+            return destination;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark(OperationsPerInvoke = 100)]
+        public int DictionaryLookup()
+        {
+            var strings = _strings;
+            var segments = _segments;
+
+            var destination = 0;
+            for (var i = 0; i < strings.Length; i++)
+            {
+                destination = _dictionaryLookup.GetDestination(strings[i], segments[i]);
+            }
+
+            return destination;
+        }
+
+        [Benchmark(OperationsPerInvoke = 100)]
+        public int CustomHashTable()
+        {
+            var strings = _strings;
+            var segments = _segments;
+
+            var destination = 0;
+            for (var i = 0; i < strings.Length; i++)
+            {
+                destination = _customHashTable.GetDestination(strings[i], segments[i]);
+            }
+
+            return destination;
+        }
+
         private static string[] GetStrings(int count)
         {
             var strings = new string[count];