On 03/12/15 13:21, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 11:43:59AM +0000, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Another thing to consider is depending on openssl >> and using ./configure --with-openssl which will >> get significantly faster sha*sum implementations. > > In addition to the concern about making openssl a required component, > I'm surprised coreutils uses openssl rather than gnutls, and doesn't > have an SSL linking exception in the license.
openssl is where dev of optimized versions of routines is concentrated. This issue is discussed somewhat at: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-12/msg00021.html It would be useful to provide a --with-crypto={openssl,gnutls,...} option. cheers, Pádraig
