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It doesn't really make a difference in a case like this. Though certainly not an ideal algorithm, the chance of a collision for something like this is low enough to never be a concern.


counterpoint: is there any reason not to use a stronger hash function?

Why leave something dangerous lying around when /probably/ nothing is going to go wrong... until someone picks it up and decides to do something with it that was unexpected, when better alternatives abound?




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