On 2014/12/30 11:46, Ted Unangst wrote: > RFC 864 specifies the chargen service. The RFC recommends a recognizable > pattern, but it was also written at a time when the internet was a > kindler, gentler place. A better recommendation for the modern > internet would be to produce random data. > > Diff follows. IMO the code is easier to reason about without the > ring arithmetic. Benchmarking reveals the code is slightly slower now > (8MB/s vs 10MB/s), but I think that's an acceptable tradeoff.
I am surprised at the number of + lines in this diff ;-) Is chargen useful for anything in the modern internet?
