On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 09:55:15AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > That way, the implementations can remain the same, That's like doing a house renovation and keeping the scaffold around forever :) Yes I agree that it would save a little bit of work for now but all the implementations would have to carry this unnecessary walking code with them forever. With a setup like ahash/shash the walking code disappears totally from the underlying implementations. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt