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all modern server CPUs have intrinsics for sha256, it just doesnt matter CPU-wise



It looks like for something the size of a UUID on Node 18, on my 8th Gen i7 (main machine broken) MD5 is only 10% faster. I guess I was remembering a time when it was like twice as fast... Neat. :)




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