Twas brillig at 09:56:56 13.04.2010 UTC-07 when [email protected] did
gyre and gimble:

 CW> It does seem to me that it would be useful to have a tiny library
 CW> that just did SHA1. Then it could be packaged in the distributions,
 CW> both the X server and notmuch could use it, and everyone could be
 CW> happy.

That's why I created libsha1. Let's just use it :) Brian have
dual-licensed code under BSD and GPLv1+, so it should not be a problem.

 CW> Are the linker bugs that make it expensive to load many small
 CW> libraries instead of one large library still prevalent, or have
 CW> those been fixed?

On really low-powered devices (my current lower bound is ARMv5TE 233MHz)
it may take ~3 seconds to load 50 libraries and reach main(), but I did
not yet profile it so I don't know why it takes so long.

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