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+## Benchmarking hashsum
+
+### To bench blake2
+
+Taken from: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/2296
+
+With a large file:
+$ hyperfine "./target/release/coreutils hashsum --b2sum large-file" "b2sum large-file"
+