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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!
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Pádraig Brady |
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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster! |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:39:39 +0100 |
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Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.
So have you decided on a final licence,
and if so update the headers accordingly?
cheers!
Pádraig.
Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2009/08/16
Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!, Pádraig Brady, 2009/08/16