[LLVMdev] [lld] contentHash in the Reader ?

[Chandler Carruth]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Owen Anderson <resistor at mac.com> wrote:

> On May 8, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Chandler Carruth <chandlerc at google.com>
> wrote:
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>>> What are the SHA-3 variants that you think would suite these needs ?
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> I want to look at the implementation complexity. The winner (and the
> official SHA3 algorithm), BMW and Skein are all worth looking at.
>
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> If your primary criterion is through-put on large, desktop-class CPUs,
> Skein is likely to be the winner.  Keccak (the official SHA3) is also
> pretty fast on CPUs (and significantly better in hardware implementations,
> not that it matters here), and has the advantage of having the official
> designation.
>

I was moderately certain that BMW had a significantly higher throughput in
software, and was only disqualified due to fairly long-tail security
concerns that wouldn't apply here.
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