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browserify / sha.js

Streamable SHA hashes in pure javascript
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what are browserify.js and bin.js for #7

Closed dominictarr closed 9 years ago

dominictarr commented 10 years ago

Daniel asked me this by email:

"May I ask what Bin.js, browserify.js were for? They seem like relics from days past? Also, why have you not used Buffer consistently throughout? Browserify buffer should have alleviated any reason to add fallbacks for encoding etc."

bin.js allows you to install sha.js globally, this is mainly useful for testing. also, browserify forces sha.js to use the js crypto and buffer polyfil when running in node.js again, this is to make testing easier (because you can test in node.js instead of a browser)

I used typed arrays in a few places because it was faster. This may have changed since then because the browserify buffer is much more developed than at the time I wrote this.

dcousens commented 10 years ago

Cheers for following that up :).

dcousens commented 9 years ago

Closing, browserify.js is now gone, and bin.js is explained by this, so no need to keep it open further.