Re: [PATCH] Add x64 SHA-NI implementation to sha1 and sha256 in git ?
"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
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> If we ship the code, then someone has to maintain it, and I don't know
> if we have any assembly experts. We might also have a bug that produced
> incorrect results, which would be pretty disastrous for the affected
> users. It's much better for maintainability if we push that off onto
> the cryptographic library maintainers who are much more competent in
> that regard than I am (I will not speak for others) and let distro
> maintainers simply link the appropriate library, which, as I said above,
> they're already effectively doing.
Thanks for a well reasoned response. Very much appreciated.
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>