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Blake3(blak3?) is where it's at
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Edit: I see, it's a hashing algorithm. I tried a few different algorithms and had some issues with large files, and didn't really see performance increases over md5, since it seems reading the data from disk was the bottleneck. I didn't try this one though. I wonder if it would actually be faster.