Dvhashdiff

Checksums just need to be different when the input is different (as far as possible), but it's almost as important that they're fast to compute.
Hash codes (for use in hashtables) have the same requirements, and additionally they should be evenly distributed across the code space, especially for inputs that are similar.
Cryptographic hashes have the much more stringent requirement that given a hash, you cannot construct an input that produces this hash. Computation times comes second.

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