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Colin Percival writes:
> Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > Three almost,
> > but not totally, identical versions of foo() means three times as much
> > maintenance effort and a non-zero probability of someone forgetting
> > to make a change to one of the versions.
> 
> Absolutely -- but this isn't particularly relevant for hash functions,
> since hash functions don't get upgraded to newer versions or have new
> features added.  (Ok, they do, but they get a new name and the old
> versions are left unchanged.)

But they do have bugs fixed or are optimised.

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