On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:28:52AM +0000, thomas david clarke wrote: > Would the asm md4 implementation used by Shareaza (under the GNU GPL) > be appropreate to use in order to accelerate rsync?
Since that would appear to compile with masm, we'd need a version that compiled with something more like gcc/gas. Or perhaps the md4core.S file from the 1.5.12 release of Botan would be a better fit? It would be interesting to be able to do a speed comparison to see if we could lower the CPU use in any kind of a significant way. Something to keep in mind: older versions of rsync had bugs in the MD4 handling, so a new implementation would need to either duplicate the old bugs (based on the protocol_version) or rsync would have to drop support for anything prior to protocol 27 (which was first supported in 2.6.0). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
