On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Can you elaborate on the advantage of letting everyone generate their own > > checksums for the installed files? Seems to me a waste of cpu cycles. > > We process all the data in a pipe anyway so calculating the checksum > takes no effort.
It does take effort. Just copying a block of data around, is less cpu/io/mem intensive, then additionally passing that thru some checksum generator.
