Assembly md4 algorithum.

Wesley W. Terpstra wesley at terpstra.ca
Mon Nov 6 16:09:37 GMT 2006


On Nov 6, 2006, at 6:35 AM, Wayne Davison wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 03:28:52AM +0000, thomas david  clarke wrote:
>> Would the asm md4 implementation used by Shareaza (under the GNU GPL)
>> be appropreate to use in order to accelerate rsync?
>
> ... It would
> be interesting to be able to do a speed comparison to see if we could
> lower the CPU use in any kind of a significant way.

At least for me, rsync bogs down when it exhausts memory (256MB on an  
embedded device). I don't know how hard it would be to improve memory  
usage, but in my situation this bottlenecks the system far more than  
MD4.



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