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[programming][shell] Fast checksums with BLAKE3 #1140

Open LukeShortCloud opened 5 months ago

LukeShortCloud commented 5 months ago

Install b3sum.

It is widely used across lots of different projects:

Alephium Bazel Chia IPFS Farcaster LLVM Mes Nym OpenZFS Redox Saito Skale Solana Tekken 8 Wasmer

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues/101

Due to hardware acceleration, SHA256 is faster on x86 CPUs for small files. Otherwise, BLAKE3 is the best for large files.

https://forum.solana.com/t/blake3-slower-than-sha-256-for-small-inputs/829