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Feature #16519

Updated by Ward Vandewege over 4 years ago

There is now a Go package to speed up md5sum calculations when the hardware supports it (AVX/AVX2 extensions, which are now common): 

   https://github.com/minio/md5-simd 

 which is described here: 

   https://blog.min.io/accelerating-aggregate-md5-hashing-up-to-800-with-avx512-2/ 

 Keepstore should Ideally, keepstore would leverage this library to speed up its hashing, if the hardware it runs on supports the necessary extensions. hashing.

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