Greetings! *** Laslo Hunhold [2021-04-17 16:30]: >we would save much more energy by banning autohell, Rust, bloated >electron-apps and Qt.
Well, I can only fully agree with that! My comment about hash functions performance was only related to defective idea that slowing them down will help us with those proof-of-work schemes. Of course using of SHA256 won't hurt much in practice and won't be even noticeable comparing to the things you named. Personally I use it for my projects on downloads page. >Especially autohell is really a huge waste of time and energy Completely agree with that too! When I moved my C-projects to redo build system, in which I also make configuration discovery, I am still astonished how fast the whole build process can be. ./configure often seems taking 90% of all build time, without any ability to parallelize, without any benefit. One thing that surprised me much was also Zstandard compression. Faster and higher compression ratio than gzip, and very fast decompression. Some time ago I used to use xz, because of its bandwidth saving. But completely moved to zstd's slow modes, that are just slightly worse than xz, but incredibly fast at decompression -- my CPU is not a decompression bottleneck anymore and that was worth of it. I heard that Arch Linux and Fedora moved to its usage and, however being the BSD-fan, I respect their move to it. -- Sergey Matveev (http://www.stargrave.org/) OpenPGP: CF60 E89A 5923 1E76 E263 6422 AE1A 8109 E498 57EF
