Add blake3 benchmark for merkledb #3349
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Why this should be merged
BLAKE3 is a popular alternative to SHA256 which may be able to be configured to out-perform SHA256. Related twitter convo.
How this works
Because golang generics aren't great... This copies the sha256 hasher implementation and uses a blake3 hasher. I'm not aware of a way to share this code without introducing memory allocations (as passing a buffer into an interface will introduce memory allocations and golang does not specialize generic functions for interfaces).
How this was tested