On 2019-Dec-10, Tomas Vondra wrote:
> It's probably still a good idea to do this, although I wonder if we
> might start doing this only when actually running out of bits (and use
> the current algorithm by default). But I have no idea if that would be
> any cheaper, and it would add complexity.
I'm under the impression that this patch is proposed for backpatching,
and that in master we can simply increase the hash width.
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