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Re:SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms by hyh1048576 on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:18PM (#13547825)
As a side note, there are some cryptocurrency project using half of the sha512, since it's faster and using a 256 bit hash saves spaces.
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