On Monday, 31 August 2020 at 21:24:53 UTC, starcanopy wrote:
I think the majority opinion is that sha1 is fine for non-security purposes like monitoring files for changes to obviate superfluous work in a build system;
Not a big fan of using hashes, since collisions do arise when you scale things up, but there are fast noncryptographic hashes. Some are like 10-500x faster than SHA1:
https://github.com/rurban/smhasher
