On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:35 AM, Wayne Davison wrote:
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?

... 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.

At least for me, rsync bogs down when it exhausts memory (256MB on an embedded device). I don't know how hard it would be to improve memory usage, but in my situation this bottlenecks the system far more than MD4.

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