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Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!

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Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date
Aug 17, 2009, 01:55 UTC
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> (Heh. Looking at that, I probably should move the 'size' field first, 
> since that would have different alignment rules, and the struct would be 
> more tightly packed that way, and initialize better).

I was about to suggest (i.e. post) a patch for that. This is indeed a good idea.

> Afaik, none of the actual code remains (the mozilla SHA1 thing did the 
> wrong thing for performance even for just the final bytes, and did those a 
> byte at a time etc, so I rewrote even the trivial SHA1_Final parts).

Maybe a patch adding a proper header with the actual license would be a good idea too.

Nicolas
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