I think we're talking at cross-purposes. The zlib function calculates crc32 and was the cause of fun in the bootblocks; Jaromir was talking about adding the crc32c hashes, used in ext2fs, iscsi and sctp.
On 12 August 2016 at 23:38, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:30:15PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > Can we please stop with that bogus myth? The crc32 was only a very small > > part of the issue and the real issue, the seeking in the kernel image, > > is still not resolved. > > True, avoiding the seeking would cut down the number of crc32 > calculations significantly - but still the time difference is remarkable. > > Martin > >
