Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[email protected]> writes:

>  As the ABI broke anyway in 3.0, would it make sense to merge the
> nettle and hogweed libraries?

Maybe as a build option, but not for a normal installation.

> the advantage of the current split is only to
> applications that only use libnettle. Nevertheless, I don't think
> there are such applications. My guess is that the ones that simply
> need sha1, would avoid linking to nettle and just copy the algorithms
> they need internally.

But I think those applications should use nettle... Adding a gmp
dependency makes that less attractive.

> In any embedded system using nettle+hogweed
> would require more memory and overhead than having a single library.

Could you put some numbers to that overhead? I can't say if it's worth
trying to avoid.

Regards,
/Niels

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