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by lisper 3556 days ago
Neat trick, but SHA1 is serious overkill for this. Even MD5 would be overkill. You don't need a cryptographically secure hash if you aren't dealing with inputs controlled by an adversary.
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Yeah it's overkill, but it ads basically no extra time to our build, so there's no need to optimize it.