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BLAKE3 is written in Rust wile BLAKE2s is written in C. That is probably a lot easier to push through.

It also seems to be almost as fast according to the BLAKE3 specs PDF (page 11).

Giantrobot was going for a They Might Be Giants song reference

I picked up on that reference too. I was about to type it up when I saw your comment. I think it went over a lot of heads.

Well, the singers might be giants after all.

TMBG was a cover; It was The Four Lads originally I believe

BLAKE3 has a C implementation including many SIMD implementations. The C implementation only lacks multi-threading which BLAKE2 does not have.