_______________________________________________________________________________ This is the README file for PHAlanx (the Parallel Hash Alternative) as released by <botao.org> _______________________________________________________________________________ For the impatient: => 'PHA' computes a digest of many buffers simultaneously, and produces a combined hash of them all. _______________________________________________________________________________ Now the gory, itchy, whimsical details... + PHA is an attempt to provide a fast, simple, portable alternative method to compute a checksum in a parallel fashion. + PHA has options for i/o buffer size, hash width, number of threads, and more. + PHA can be run single-threadedly - for performance comparisons. + PHA can check files against previsously saved sums, like `MD5sum' does. It also has a 'demo' mode, to ascertain accurate operation. _______________________________________________________________________________ * PHA is intended to be useful on large files; - for small strings, passwords, files under a few KBs, or things like "a million 'a's", use MD5 or SHA instead. * PHA is meant for multicore/multiprocessor/multithreaded environments; _______________________________________________________________________________ ________________ Jul'2012 Alexandre Botao http://botao.org
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