From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:55:39 GMT
Subject: Re: Linus' sha1 is much faster!
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0908162151180.6044@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0908151336530.3162@localhost.localdomain>

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