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by Taek 1279 days ago
sha3 is a lot more power efficient when implemented in hardware, which is nice when you have an IoT device that needs to do a lot of hashing.

It will also be really nice on amd_64 CPUs for doing large amounts of hashing if they ever get a sha3 instruction.

That said, hashing is rarely your bottleneck so there's not much urgency.