[I_like_tomato]

The reasoning here is to improve getting hash of a large file (let say size > 100GB). Reading the file content sequently and hashing it will take a lot longer

[BobbyTables2]

I agree, but there is no way to compute the equivalent of the sequential hash using any parallel method.

This isn’t like gzip which can be parallelized.

Without standardization of a parallelized hash computation, it’s just a toy exercise in an embarrassingly parallel problem.