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Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [PATCH] md5: accepts a new --threads option
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 05:58:28 -0600
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According to Pádraig Brady on 10/22/2009 5:09 AM:
> digest routines in gnulib do fread(4096).
> Bumping that up to 32KiB gives a 3% boost.

Well spotted.

> Does anyone have any objections to increasing
> the stack requirement by 28672 bytes?

None here - support for a stack of at least 1 megabyte is very common
these days.  And the faster I/O speed justifies it.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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