On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 16:30:15 +0200 Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> wrote:
> 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 I've completely ignored Rust. What's the problem with it? > 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 >
