Association Attack & potfiles

[Snoopy]

just for understanding why association attack dont work with potfiles? as far as i understand, assoc just removes the loop for testing all given salts with all passwordcandidates instead there is a 1:1 hash : salt to password/hint combination

so hashcat still test hashmode(pass/hint : salt) for one given hash : salt

so there should be no difference in hash : salt : pass behavior in the potfile