On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi > > inside of [compress] we've already got an implementation of CRC32C (used > by Snappy, "borrowed" from Hadoop) and will soonish have xxhash32 (used > by LZ4). > > I was wondering whether these implementations would belong in one of the > other components (as well as - rather than instead of - compress) but > I'm not sure where it would fit. > > [codec] and [io] could be candidates but neither holds any > java.util.zip.Checksum implementations as of now. > > Neither CRC32C nor xxhash32 are cryptographic hashes so using codec's > digest package feels wrong. > I agree both [io] and [codec] feel wrong. I would throw [lang] into the hat, but in fact I don't see a perfect place in any of the components. Maybe create a "checksum" package in codec? cheers, Torsten
