Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Hello, > > inspired by the attempt to make `sort' multi-threaded, I added threads > support to md5sum and the sha* programs family. It has effect only when > multiple files are specified. > > Any comment?
How does it compare to: files_per_process=10 cpus=4 find files | xargs -n$files_per_process -P$cpus md5sum I would expect it to be a bit better as file_per_process could be very large, thus having less overhead in starting processes. Though is the benefit worth the extra implementation complexity and new less general interface for users? cheers, Pádraig.