On Tue, July 10, 2012 19:56, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:
> However, before I start out on a pointless endeavor, I wanted to probe
> the field of ZFS users, especially those using dedup, on whether their
> workloads would benefit from a faster hash algorithm (and hence, lower
> CPU utilization). Developments of late have suggested to me three
> possible candidates:
[...]
I'd wait until SHA-3 is announced. It's supposed to happen this year, of
which only six months are left:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/timeline.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_hash_function_competition
It was actually supposed to happen to "2Q", so they're running a little
late it seems.
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