On Tue 01 Oct 2019, Bill Wichser via rsync wrote: > > Attached is the patch we applied. Since xxhash is in the distro, a > dependency would be required for this RPM. If nothing else, perhaps the > developers should just take a look as this could benefit many.
"The distro" is a bit vague for a tool like rsync that runs on many versions of Unix and linux, and even windows. The problem is (AFAIK) that this would need a protocol version bump so that the checksum algorithm to be used can be decided upon by both ends of the transfer, it's not as simple as simply replacing the current algorithm: that would make it impossible to rsync to / from an older version of rsync. It's an interesting idea, although I wonder how many users would actually profit from this. CPU is generally fast enough to handle what the IO subsystem can read for most people, I imagine. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
