Linus Torvalds wrote: > where the thing is loosely based on the Mozilla SHA1 routines but by the > end doesn't really resemble them all that much. The Mozilla ones suck > donkey d*ck in so many ways - unnecessary copies, idiotic byte-at-a-time > build-up of the hash input etc. > > The end result is pretty much equivalent in performance to the OpenSSL > SHA1 code for me on x86-64. Getting rid of OpenSSL gets rid of another For those curious just how close the C version is to the various asm and C implementations, the q&d microbenchmark is at http://www.src.multimo.pl/YDpqIo7Li27O0L0h/sha1bench.tar.gz In short: 88% of openssl speed on P3, 42% on P4, 66% on Atom. artur -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html