*the was, belatedly, some attempt to add a choice of different hashing algorithms to the mix; but these proved pointless overkill and pragmatically too inefficient; and fell into immediate disuse. If they are still needlessly cluttering the codebase -- I haven't looked lately -- it is simply because no one has got around to removing them
The above can be attributed to
BrowserUk, and I was hoping to register the fact that I (
syphilis) had given his view a ++ (and would have given even more upvotes if such were possible).
However, when I preview my post, I find that it is being attributed to
gods.
What is going on ? (A "god" is the last fucking thing I would want to be ;-)
Cheers,
Rob
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