On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 8:22 PM, Joshua Kinard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Minor clarification, old single core //and// uni-processor. Some older > machines have multiple physical CPUs that are single-core. Threading > should be > okay on these, as long as the thread count stays under NR_CPUS. > > I also have a really old single-CPU system, MIPS (obviously). Not the > fastest > on the block compared to the other equipment I've got, but does anyone > know of > any simple timing scripts/programs available that can benchmark some of > these > proposed digest hashes? If they turn out to be reasonably quick on my old > machine, I doubt then that speed will be too much of an issue. > Even on your "old single-CPU MIPS" system, what percentage of time is spent verifying manifest hashes compared to actually building/installing? The whole "slow and/or multiple hashes will cause problems" argument seems specious.
