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authorPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-03 03:51:52 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2013-12-04 13:18:56 +0000
commitb53b0fd940382497e58a9e912f1262c2084fe534 (patch)
tree7b5fde00794f059d22b685f05794b754a4aa513e
parent2091f44993c4d0ad16cbe272c247bb452ae74216 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b53b0fd940382497e58a9e912f1262c2084fe534.tar.xz
md5sum, sha*sum: use libcrypto where available
libcrypto is generally available and has well optimized crypto hash routines particular to various systems. For example, testing sha1sum with openssl-1.0.0j on an i3-2310M, gives a performance boost of about 40%: $ time sha1sum.old --tag ~/test.iso SHA1 (/home/padraig/test.iso) = 3c27f7ed01965fd2b89e22128fd62dc51a3bef30 real 0m4.692s user 0m4.499s sys 0m0.162s $ time sha1sum.new --tag ~/test.iso SHA1 (/home/padraig/test.iso) = 3c27f7ed01965fd2b89e22128fd62dc51a3bef30 real 0m2.685s user 0m2.512s sys 0m0.170s * configure.ac: By default, enable use of libcrypto if available. * src/local.mk: Link with libcrypto. * NEWS: Mention the md5sum and sha*sum improvements.
-rw-r--r--NEWS5
-rw-r--r--configure.ac11
-rw-r--r--src/local.mk9
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 520e94669..e0cd5400c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -116,6 +116,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
base64 encoding throughput for bulk data is increased by about 60%.
+ md5sum uses libcrypto hash routines where available to potentially
+ get better performance through using more system specific code.
+ sha1sum for example has improved throughput by 40% on an i3-2310M.
+ This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
stat and tail work better with EFIVARFS, EXOFS, F2FS, SNFS and UBIFS.
stat -f --format=%T now reports the file system type, and tail -f now uses
inotify for files on those file systems, rather than the default (for unknown
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 8a3ac48a0..16b6c35b1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -50,6 +50,17 @@ m4_syscmd([test "${GNULIB_POSIXCHECK+set}" = set])
m4_if(m4_sysval, [0], [], [dnl
gl_ASSERT_NO_GNULIB_POSIXCHECK])
+dnl Enable use of libcrypto if available.
+dnl Note we could do this as follows:
+dnl AS_VAR_SET_IF([with_openssl], [], [with_openssl=optional])
+dnl However that would not document the coreutils adjusted default,
+dnl so we add another --with-openssl description just to document that
+AC_ARG_WITH([openssl],
+ [AC_HELP_STRING([--with-openssl],
+ [The coreutils default is: --with-openssl=optional])],
+ [],
+ [with_openssl=optional])
+
AC_PROG_CC_STDC
AM_PROG_CC_C_O
AC_PROG_CPP
diff --git a/src/local.mk b/src/local.mk
index 1315e1103..fe80f41c1 100644
--- a/src/local.mk
+++ b/src/local.mk
@@ -293,6 +293,15 @@ src_stdbuf_LDADD += $(LIBICONV)
src_timeout_LDADD += $(LIBICONV)
src_truncate_LDADD += $(LIBICONV)
+# for libcrypto hash routines
+src_md5sum_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+src_sort_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+src_sha1sum_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+src_sha224sum_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+src_sha256sum_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+src_sha384sum_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+src_sha512sum_LDADD += $(LIB_CRYPTO)
+
# for canon_host
src_pinky_LDADD += $(GETADDRINFO_LIB)
src_who_LDADD += $(GETADDRINFO_LIB)