Re: Move sha1 to C?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Do you mind if I do the following:

>   1. add sha1.[ch] from gnulib
>   2. export sha1 to elisp
>   3. obsolete sha1.el

Fine by me.  3 should also include "gut sha1.el's content" so that
loading it won't end up overwriting the C implementation with the old
Elisp code.

> Should the signature of sha1 stay as is or change to be similar to md5?
>    (md5 OBJECT &optional START END CODING-SYSTEM NOERROR)

I don't have any opinion on this.  The only thing I consider important
is to signal an error if the hashed text contains any
non-byte character.


        Stefan