[issue11771] hashlib object cannot be pickled

[Gregory P. Smith]

Gregory P. Smith added the comment:

Do you honestly have a situation where you need to share a computationally
significant amount of hashing state only to want to finish the computation
N different times with alternate computationally significant ending data
that multiprocessing would actually help with where you cannot use
threads?  Hashlib releases the GIL during nontrivial hash computations.

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