27 May
2016
27 May
'16
11:19 p.m.
On 05/27/2016 07:52 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
If we demote them to second-class support (by making them only available in some builds, or using a slow pure Python implementation), then we'll be encouraging users to use inferior hashes. We shouldn't do this without a very good reason.
I agree. And I really think we shouldn't even ship pure Python implementations of these hashing algorithms. I am fairly confident that these algorithms would be prohibitively slow if written in pure Python.