Re: Added hashes.

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Colin Percival <cperciva@sfu.ca> writes:
>> On an AMD Athlon XP 2400+, I can sha256 a 1.1GB file in 16.3 seconds of
>> CPU time. It takes over twice that much disk time.
>
> Hey, that's pretty good. What implementation?

That's /sbin/sha256 from FreeBSD; a standalone version of the same code
is at <http://www.daemonology.net/misc/freebsd-sha256-20050310.tar.gz>

There's nothing special about this implementation, and I'm sure
well-written assembly code -- or a better compiler than gcc 3.4.4 --
would be faster.

Colin Percival
Received on Fri Dec 23 20:09:45 2005