From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:33:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block-sha1: more good unaligned memory access candidates
Message-ID: <7v63crbja2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908131304520.10633@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> writes:

> As it is now, I was about to suggest:
>
> 	git mv block-sha1/sha1.[ch] .
> 	rmdir block-sha1
> 	rm -r mozilla-sha1
> 	rm -r arm
> 	rm -r ppc 
>
> and remove support for openssl's SHA1 usage, making this implementation 
> unconditional.  After all it is faster, or so close to be faster than 
> the alternatives, that we should probably cut on the extra dependency 
> and simplify portability issues at the same time.

Wow.  Is it now faster than the arm/ and ppc/ hand-tweaked assembly?