On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:05:01 +0300 Sergey Matveev <stargr...@stargrave.org> wrote:
Dear Sergey, > If we a talking here about checking software integrity, then speed is > important. Millions of people check the hash of downloaded files -- if > it is slow, then huge quantity of time/energy is wasted. Less time you > spent on hashing, less energy is wasted. SHA2 (and SHA3 too, if we are > not talking about KangarooTwelve modifications) is the worst choice > from ecology point of view. we would save much more energy by banning autohell, Rust, bloated electron-apps and Qt. Especially autohell is really a huge waste of time and energy, and I often find that packages take longer to "configure" (what for?) than to actually compile. Never has configure ever helped me; it always stood in the way, e.g. when GHC added a warning a few months ago, breaking all autoconf-checks who assumed that any output from the compiler was an error. With best regards Laslo
