On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 21:23, Camilo Mesias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:camilo@mesias.co.uk">camilo@mesias.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Even if you have an external program to do the b-tree heavy lifting,<br>
its performance will likely be crippled if it has to start up,<br>
navigate the tree and interact with it. It will also be better to use<br>
a scripting language that has extensions for md5 (for example) rather<br>
than run up a new subprocess for every md5sum.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which, it should be noted, Perl has an entire module dedicated to that has worked rather well for me in the past:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Digest-MD5-2.51/MD5.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/Digest-MD5-2.51/MD5.pm</a></div>
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-Cam<br>
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