[Unison-hackers] OCaml version mismatch breaks Unison 2.48.4

[Mike Bohde]

>From my understanding of the two methods SHA256 will be slower. If speed
was the only concern sha1 and crc32 are objectively faster than even md5.
If we were all dealing with the compute ability of machines 10 years ago or
comparing datasets in the dozens of terabytes with massive changes I would
be concerned.
In casual to soho use I doubt there to be much of a difference that an
average end user would notice. Realistically I do not see a problem with a
synchronization comparison taking 10 or 20% more time.

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:14 AM Benjamin Pierce <bcpierce at cis.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> Fantastic!
>
> Changing from Digest to something more stable like SHA256 sounds
> reasonable, but would we expect any difference in performance?  I believe
> the point of md5 was that it was cheap to compute even for huge amounts of
> data…
>
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