If you were going to rewrite your data, why wouldn't you go with something that's been standardized by every hardware implementers as the next generation CRC al

If you were going to rewrite your data, why wouldn't you go with something that's been standardized by every hardware implementers as the next generation CRC algorithm, CRC32c (the one the article explicitly throws out at the beginning, because the author did not want to rewrite the data)? Even ARM chips and network- and storage-focused microcontrollers have hardware acceleration for it these days...