19 Dec
2017
19 Dec
'17
3:59 p.m.
On 19 December 2017 at 15:48, Peter Dimov via Boost
If we name the module 'hash' it's not hard to see that in the future it will be seen as the obvious home for implementations of MD5, SHA-*, and other hash algorithms (FNV-1a, cityhash...) which we do miss in Boost. So there will be pressure to add them, pull requests implementing them, and so on.
The question is do we see this as a bad thing?
Well I don't want this to create extra pressure on me, so I do. I'd rather they were separate, unless we were expanding the boost::hash implementation to support multiple hash algorithms.