From c3ec4eee2757b890d91768b3ece61e974ef29697 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Ryder Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 23:01:17 +1200 Subject: More README tweaks --- README.markdown | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.markdown') diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index 887f18b..ecae6fc 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -65,17 +65,15 @@ a tiny bit faster: $ CHECKEM_ALG=SHA-1 checkem /dir -Realistically, this is almost certainly splitting hairs. +Realistically, though, this is almost certainly splitting hairs. Theoretically, you could read only the first *n* bytes of each hash-needing file and hash those with some suitable inexpensive function *f*, and just compare those before resorting to checking the entire file with a safe hash -function *g*. - -You'd need to decide on suitable values for *n*, *f*, and *g* in such a case; -it might be useful for very large sets of files that will almost certainly -differ in the first *n* bytes. If there's interest in this at all, I'll write -it in as optional behaviour. +function *g*. You'd need to decide on suitable values for *n*, *f*, and *g* in +such a case; it might be useful for very large sets of files that will almost +certainly differ in the first *n* bytes. If there's interest in this at all, +I'll write it in as optional behaviour. Contributors ------------ -- cgit v1.2.3