On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:54:50AM +1000, Rich Salz wrote:
> > Just caught up on the mailing-list, and looked up those performance issues.
> > Is md4 a bottleneck now ?
>
> My hunch is that it's not MD4 per se, but rather the file i/o. But
> nobody has posted profile data here (not that I've seen), so it's still
> just a hunch.
>
> BTW, MD4 is so last century. SHA1 is where it's at. :)
I'd be interested to hear opinions on this code, which rproxy uses as
an intelligent buffer when reading from the network. It's based on
mapptr.c from rsync, but has changed a lot since then. Perhaps it can
move back if people think it's worthwhile -- I'm not quite sure yet.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libhsync/mapptr.c?cvsroot=rproxy
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rproxy accelerates HTTP by dynamic caching and differential update
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