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That one trick your LLM doesn't know about... Instead of createHash('sha1').update(data).digest('hex') You can do hash('sha1', data, 'hex')

ugh why isn't this documented better in nodejs.org/api/crypto.h... this is so much nicer!

It is documented and explains a bit, but not well known: > It can be faster than the object-based crypto.createHash() when hashing a smaller amount of data (<= 5MB) that's readily available. If the data can be big or if it is streamed, it's still recommended to use crypto.createHash() instead.

they should put a note directing to hash() under nodejs.org/api/crypto.h... with the aforementioned benefits/drawbacks ideally