On 03/26/2013 10:40 AM, Sven Barth wrote: > Am 26.03.2013 06:53, schrieb Anthony Walter:
>> I wasn't asking you to stop your work, rather I was attempting to >> share insights and my opinions with the group. My point in the >> previous message was that many times it make sense to reuse something >> which works, and possibly part of the operating system, rather than >> recreating that which already exists. > We already have a "hash" package and I'm all for improving/extending it. > This can prove especially useful for platforms where OpenSSL is not > supported (think the embedded targets or similar here). Also I'm a big > fan of "as less non-Pascal dependencies as possible" :) > Another advantage of OpenSSL is performance. Especially on x64 where OpenSSL is an order of magnitude faster than fe. the synapse sha1 implementation. It uses assembly to optimize code. I doubt that will ever be done in a FPC library. Ludo _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
