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That actually makes a lot of sense to improve performance on specific parts. Think about generating lookup tables at compile time for example. Instead of having a separate script generating them, you can keep the generation close to the place you use it, written in the same language and always up to date.

Not really but quoting the Readme:

"RustyHermit is a rewrite of HermitCore in Rust developed at RWTH-Aachen."

They wanted to keep the Hermit most probably

I mean, if you have one task to do only, multi-tasking is kind of pointless yes

This was my internship subject (in another company) just before I graduated, I wonder what they used for the Perceptual Hash, ours was SIFT features. Happy to see that what I implemented would have been able to scale that much !