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-rw-r--r--src/libcore/hash/sip.rs4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/libcore/hash/sip.rs b/src/libcore/hash/sip.rs
index 7ebe01e26dc..c4fbd9dbada 100644
--- a/src/libcore/hash/sip.rs
+++ b/src/libcore/hash/sip.rs
@@ -121,7 +121,9 @@ macro_rules! load_int_le {
     }};
 }
 
-/// Loads an u64 using up to 7 bytes of a byte slice.
+/// Loads a u64 using up to 7 bytes of a byte slice. It looks clumsy but the
+/// `copy_nonoverlapping` calls that occur (via `load_int_le!`) all have fixed
+/// sizes and avoid calling `memcpy`, which is good for speed.
 ///
 /// Unsafe because: unchecked indexing at start..start+len
 #[inline]