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@TyberiusPrime TyberiusPrime released this 21 Nov 07:49
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We new support jobs creating
.sha256 files containing 64 char hexdigest (presumably sha256 hashes)
next to their output files.

These are then used instead of recalculating a hash using xxhash_128().

This allows for both speed ups (for example tools like mbf_fastq_parser
can generate such hash files essentially for free),
and for file hashes that are not strictly a hash of the bytes.

(For example the STAR aligner will generate different compressed files,
that are nevertheless identical in uncompressed content).