Skill hacking away...

Peter Nixon listuser at peternixon.net
Wed Apr 18 17:27:08 CEST 2007


On Wed 18 Apr 2007, Alan DeKok wrote:
>   Step 1: Get it to work.
>      Mostly done.  Some things need doing still, but it's looking good.
>
>   Step 2: Get it to work *fast*
>     Removed big chunks of CPU time for a simple clear-text password test
>
>   In some cases, hashes are faster than trees (read: constantly changing
> data).  In others, trees are faster than hashes (data that doesn't
> change).  And caching pointers makes the code a little more complicated,
> but much faster.
>
>   Right now it's about 20% faster than 1.x for the same test.

OK. Let me know when you have got it to a point where you think its _mostly_ 
stable and I will update one of my servers and see which bits fall off :-)

Cheers
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