Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option

[Pádraig Brady]

Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> inspired by the attempt to make `sort' multi-threaded, I added threads
> support to md5sum and the sha* programs family.  It has effect only when
> multiple files are specified.
> 
> Any comment?

How does it compare to:

files_per_process=10
cpus=4
find files | xargs -n$files_per_process -P$cpus md5sum

I would expect it to be a bit better as file_per_process
could be very large, thus having less overhead in starting
processes. Though is the benefit worth the extra implementation
complexity and new less general interface for users?

cheers,
Pádraig.