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[bug #61594] suggest new $(hash ...) function


From: Paul D. Smith
Subject: [bug #61594] suggest new $(hash ...) function
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2021 15:41:18 -0500 (EST)
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #61594 (project make):

It's a bit confusing because the "good and useful points" were all made in
responses to the mailing list, not posted to this Savannah issue.

In any event, I don't see any point in using any sort of cryptographic hash,
even one as widely available as SHA-1.  All that's wanted here, from my
understanding, is a value which is highly likely to be unique.  It seems that
something like xxhash or the GNU hash-pjw function would suffice.  These,
however, give results that are only 4 or 8 bytes wide as opposed to something
like 16 bytes for MD5 or 20 bytes for SHA-1.

I don't know if these extra bytes are worth the cost.

In any event any such function would need to allow a way to choose the type of
hash to avoid lock-in: we wouldn't want to just have "$(hash <somestring>)"
then never be able to change it, I wouldn't expect.

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