Hi Peff, On Fri, 16 Jun 2017, Jeff King wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > I have no doubt that Visual Studio Team Services, GitHub and Atlassian > > will eventually end up with FPGAs for hash computation. So that's > > that. > > I actually doubt this from the GitHub side. Hash performance is not even > on our radar as a bottleneck. In most cases the problem is touching > uncompressed data _at all_, not computing the hash over it (so things > like reusing on-disk deltas are really important). Thanks for pointing that out! As a mainly client-side person, I rarely get insights into the server side... Ciao, Dscho