Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Optional perhaps? md5 hashing chews up a minor amount of time compared to > the actuall disk io, especially when you do it as the data is flowing into > the file you are writing.
I'll belive the author of apt knows what he's talking about on this one. :-) > Putting it in dpkg means that automagically evey package suddenly has > valid md5sum files. The only problem with that is it means <gasp> modifying dpkg. :-) > I booted linux on a embedded intel 386-33 without a coprocessor :> Fun > Fun. I currently have the 4th and 8th slowest linux machines listed in the BogoMips HOWTO: Intel 286 Tandy 0.75 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Intel 386 PS2 2.34 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dpkg would actually run on the PS2, I think. If it had more than 2 mb or ram. :-) -- see shy jo
