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by tyingq 2087 days ago
Can you try cksum instead?
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jeffbee 2087 days ago
3.3s here. Is it faster on your system?
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tyingq 2087 days ago
No, was hoping a non-cryptographic checksum would be faster. Perhaps cksum isn't the one.

Edit: "sum -s" is faster for me, but the man page doesn't give much info on what the algorithm is.

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jeffbee 2087 days ago
Well it returns 00000 for /dev/zero so it looks like it is a quite useless 16-bit check.
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