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Fri May 27 19:19:15 EDT 2016 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-May/144752.html

On 05/27/2016 07:52 PM, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> If we demote them to second-class support (by making them only
 > available in some builds, or using a slow pure Python implementation),
 > then we'll be encouraging users to use inferior hashes. We shouldn't
 > do this without a very good reason.

I agree. And I really think we shouldn't even ship pure Python 
implementations of these hashing algorithms. I am fairly confident that 
these algorithms would be prohibitively slow if written in pure Python.

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