Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:29:19 +0000 From: Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libmd Makefile sha256.3 sha256.h sha256c.c shadriver.c src/sbin/md5 Makefile md5.c Message-ID: <200503100829.j2A8TJm9081256@grovel.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:18:07 PST." <423002BF.5010202@freebsd.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Colin Percival writes: > Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Three almost, > > but not totally, identical versions of foo() means three times as much > > maintenance effort and a non-zero probability of someone forgetting > > to make a change to one of the versions. > > Absolutely -- but this isn't particularly relevant for hash functions, > since hash functions don't get upgraded to newer versions or have new > features added. (Ok, they do, but they get a new name and the old > versions are left unchanged.) But they do have bugs fixed or are optimised. M -- Mark Murray iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200503100829.j2A8TJm9081256>