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[wasm2c] Migrate to binaryen's existing hasher

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
58/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
wasm
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by locating the wasm2c hashing implementation and binaryen's existing hasher, then compare how each is used. Migrate wasm2c to the existing hasher and verify that the resulting output divergence is expected and consistently produced.

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Description

For ease of validation, the initial version of wasm2c is using sha256 (via picosha2) for hashing. This issue tracks migrating to binaryen's existing hasher. This will cause output divergence, which is why we're doing it later.

Dominant language
WebAssembly
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