[LLVMdev] [lld] contentHash in the Reader ?

[Rui Ueyama]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Shankar Easwaran
<shankare at codeaurora.org>wrote:

> On 5/8/2013 11:35 AM, Chandler Carruth wrote:
>
>> Interestingly newer, supposedly "more secure" digest algorithms are also
>> very often significantly faster. I don't think we want any of the ones
>> mentioned here, I think we want one of the candidates is the SHA3
>> competition which had truly stellar software implementation throughput. I'm
>> hoping to add support for such a digest algorithm to LLVM soon, as there
>> are many folks who want to consume this information: modules, merge
>> function pass, debug info, and the linker.
>>
> Nice, Is it performant in size as well as speed too ?. Because lld would
> need to store this information for every atom thats mergeable.
>

How about using only the first 80 (or 96 or 128) bits of the digest?


> What are the SHA-3 variants that you think would suite these needs ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Shankar Easwaran
>
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