Re: coreutils patch to multithread md5sum for parallel hashing (ala the HP-UX days)

[Pádraig Brady]

On 25/03/10 00:13, Brett L. Trotter wrote:
> Hello, this is my first post to the list, so I'll say in advance here
> I'm pleased to meet you all.

Hi, and first off thanks for the patch!
However this has been submitted before and not accepted.
The unix toolkit is already good at splitting up the
processing on separate files as detailed here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-10/msg00179.html

cheers,
Pádraig.

p.s. You may want to compare the performance of:
CPUS=4; find files | xargs -n1 -P$CPUS md5sum

p.p.s. We only really accept patches (especially of this size)
against the latest git source.