Add Support For BLAKE3
InnovativeInventor opened this issue · 1 comments
InnovativeInventor commented
BLAKE3 is very new, shiny, and fast!
Python is planning to add it to hashlib: https://bugs.python.org/issue39298
I'm trying to quickly timestamp a few TB hard drives worth of files and the speed of BLAKE3 would be very nice to have.
petertodd commented
Closing as "won't fix", as Python never added it. Also, SHA256 accelerator opcodes are (finally!) becoming more commonly available in CPUs, and that's likely to increase even further over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_SHA_extensions