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by huhtenberg 270 days ago
> a simple, fast ... tool

What does "fast" mean here? Fast compared to what?

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By fast I mean two things:

Files are hashed in parallel, so large sets can be processed quickly.

On repeated runs, unchanged files skip hashing with a default 90% probability using a cache. This keeps checks lightweight even at scale