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Re:SHA-512 is 1.5x faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit platforms by joshuak on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @10:29PM (#13547862)
We use this fact in our ID system. Consider bloom filters... so many different 'hash functions' you get for free out of 64 bytes of hash data.
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