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doc: remove obsolete performance comment
authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:05:58 +0000 (12:05 -0700)
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Fri, 16 Oct 2015 19:07:07 +0000 (12:07 -0700)
commit0cb602e33aa4972170fa676547e4dd8dca63c00c
treef368e040b189e7a2c6c80c3668a1077842f667c6
parente8d7e205309c05cf2c7c9a42b33708b1eb4587ca
doc: remove obsolete performance comment

sha512sum can be faster than sha256sum.
E.g., ‘dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=1024 | time sha256sum’
reports 8.16 user CPU seconds on my host, whereas sha512sum
consumes 5.45 seconds (Fedora x86-64 on an AMD Phenom II X4 910e).
Although sha512sum is still considerably slower on x86, a good
chunk of uses are on 64-bit hosts and anyway there’s little point
to scaring people away from sha512sum nowadays.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sha2 utilities): Remove obsolete comment.
doc/coreutils.texi