In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gabriel Ambuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Friday, July 21, 2000, 10:13:59 AM, you wrote:
> > I was only adding a comment that one of the mirror owners made. The
> > checking of the MD5 signature was supposed to be the limiting factor.
[...]
>
> What about having cached MD5 sigs on the server as well as on the
> client (tough there's the problem with the people who like to patch
> their sources, but anyway)? I mean you only need to regenerate them
> when you update a file...
Before this thread goes too far, let me tell you that I don't think
the cost of the MD5 calculations is at all significant. In my CVSup
profiling tests the MD5 calculation has never even made a blip on the
radar screen. Calculating an MD5 signature is very cheap. It takes
less CPU time than the venerable "sum" command.
John
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