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| author | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2017-08-10 23:00:35 +1200 |
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| committer | Tom Ryder <tom@sanctum.geek.nz> | 2017-08-10 23:00:35 +1200 |
| commit | 23a137ed9f2acf4b381b99ae25115d09158e6963 (patch) | |
| tree | 076aad7837945927d35cb569cb0e9b3868d27f5d | |
| parent | Better approach to finding an algorithm (diff) | |
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diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index 54a83c6..887f18b 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ If you end up hashing a lot of files because their sizes are the same, and you're not worried about [SHA-1 technically being broken in practice][1], it's a tiny bit faster: - $ CHECKEM_ALG=sha1 checkem /dir + $ CHECKEM_ALG=SHA-1 checkem /dir + +Realistically, this is almost certainly splitting hairs. Theoretically, you could read only the first *n* bytes of each hash-needing file and hash those with some suitable inexpensive function *f*, and just |