On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:18:16PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > Given you already depend on OpenSSL anyway why is it preferable to use the > (very likely slower) Python hashlib version than a highly optimised (using > appropriate cpu asm code) OpenSSL version ?
hashlib has a back-end that links against libcrypto, and uses that if it's been built, but has its own fallbacks otherwise. So by using hashlib, we don't have a direct dependency on openssl, but will use it if we can. This makes the pkg(5) code more portable, but still get the performance we want on our core platforms. Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
