[gobo-eiffel-develop] Calculating Checksum in Eiffel

[Andreas L. <ale...@ra...>]

Hi all,

we need to calculate the checksum of a stream of characters. Basically
we would like to a quick way to check if two streams of characters are
he same. False positives are not a big deal, since we can always fall
back and compare the streams character for character (as long as it does
not happen too often).

Does anybody know if such an algorithm is already implemented somewhere
in Eiffel that we could use?

I only found Franck's library
(http://eiffelzone.com/esd/crc/index.html), but it is written against
TowerEiffel using BIT, both of which are no longer supported.

many thanks in advance,
Andreas