[eternalban]

> optimized implementations of non-parallel BLAKE2s and BLAKE2b also use SIMD

Sure, have seen those. No biggie, but my point was that vanila B2b (on C) is already neck and neck with MD5.

> uint32 result = (b[3] << 24) | (b[2] << 16) | (b[1] << 8) | b[0];

Yep, akaik that's all you can do on the JVM & of course for 64bit it's even more work. I thought you meant some sort of magic number bit wizzardry :)