[pmarreck]

xxHash (or xxh3 which I believe is even faster) is massively faster than SHA256 at the cost of security, which is unnecessary here.

Of course, engineering being what it is, it's possible that only one of these has hardware support and thus might end up actually being faster in realtime.

[PhilipRoman]

Blake3 is my favorite for this kind of thing. It's a cryptographic hash (maybe not the world's strongest, but considered secure), and also fast enough that in real world scenarios it performs just as well as non-crypto hashes like xx.