Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.21.0-rc2
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brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
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- Feb 21, 2019, 23:55 UTC
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:10:00PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:41 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote: > > Another mention of /dev/zero appears in t/helper/test-sha1.sh (not > > to be confused with t/helper/test-sha1.c). This seems to be run > > only with an explicit "make -C t/helper check-sha1" request, so > > perhaps nobody on your platform ran it to get hit by it. I wonder > > if anybody runs this on any platform, to be honest, though. > > I vaguely remember Brian added something to test SHA-512 performance > but I can't find it. Maybe when he adds something (if it's not there > already) we can retire this script, or update it to check sha-512 too.
Doing git blame on that script seems to show that it was written mostly by Junio. I think you may be thinking of test-tool hash-speed, which can be used to benchmark a hash implementation. That's what I used for most of my testing.
We may not need both anymore, though.
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