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Use kernel crypto API in checksumming utilities #4

Closed teknoraver closed 6 years ago

teknoraver commented 6 years ago

Let md5sum and all sha*sum utilities use Linux kernel cryptographic API via the AF_ALG address family.

The speed gain really ranges from ~10% to 320% depending on the CPU type.

teknoraver commented 6 years ago

v3 posted here:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-04/msg00101.html

teknoraver commented 6 years ago

merged