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Re:XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable ... by MR4D on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:00PM (#23989695)
So, does this mean I can replace CRC32 with XXH ?
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Re:XXH3, world's fastest hash algorithm, has reached stable ... by ncmncm on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:54AM (#24018613)
Depends what you use CRC for. CRC is processed a byte at a time, but really fast things nowadays do 16 or 32 bytes at a time.
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