Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.21.0-rc2

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> On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 08:10:00PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
> > 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.
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> 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.
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> We may not need both anymore, though.