Re: allow frontend use of the backend's core hashing functions

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 11:15 AM David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> One question. It might be possible to make these functions faster
> using compiler intrinsics. Would those still be available to front-end
> code?

Why not? We use the same compiler for frontend code as we do for
backend code. Possibly you might need some more header-file
rejiggering someplace, but I don't know of anything specific or see
any reason why it would be particularly painful if we had to do
something.

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