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Comment by notpushkin

> The checksum is pointless because an entire 512 bit token still fits in an x86 cache line

I suppose it’s there to avoid round-trip to the DB. Most of us just need to host the DB on the same machine instead, but given sharding is involved, I assume the product is big enough this is undesirable.

parent notpushkin 6 months ago

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