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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!
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Nicolas Pitre |
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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster! |
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Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:55:39 -0400 (EDT) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (Heh. Looking at that, I probably should move the 'size' field first,
> since that would have different alignment rules, and the struct would be
> more tightly packed that way, and initialize better).
I was about to suggest (i.e. post) a patch for that. This is indeed a
good idea.
> Afaik, none of the actual code remains (the mozilla SHA1 thing did the
> wrong thing for performance even for just the final bytes, and did those a
> byte at a time etc, so I rewrote even the trivial SHA1_Final parts).
Maybe a patch adding a proper header with the actual license would be a
good idea too.
Nicolas
Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/08/16
Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!, Pádraig Brady, 2009/08/16