[ccache] Why not using MD5?

[Martin Pool]

On 15 Nov 2004, Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter at pluto.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> But a million lies within reasonable bounds. For example, compiling
> a Linux kernel produces about 1000 objects in a typical setup. Then
> if one uses a cache for two years for twenty-five projects of that
> size in the average, changing the compiler version four times within
> that period, ten versions of each project that change a global header
> will suffice to produce one million different objects. A compilation
> server for a Linux distribution with that usage pattern will then
> reach a 50 % probability of a ccache collision within these two years.

The other factor is whether the cache will grow to include a million
files.  I have a 403MB cache containing 15196 object files, for an
average of 26kB per file.  To get to a million files would be on the
order of 26GB, which is probably larger than most people would use.
There is additionally a limit on the number of files in the cache.

But regardless of this, I agree it would be better to use MD5.

--
Martin
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