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@staticfloat staticfloat released this 22 Jan 20:33
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v0.5.4
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@dcjones contributed significant performance improvements to SHA3 (and some smaller benefits to SHA1/2 as well) while simultaneously reducing memory churn.

Previous performance on a 90MB file:

$ julia perf.jl ~/.julia/v0.6/BinaryBuilder/deps/downloads/rootfs-x86_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz
read:      0.286516 seconds (6 allocations: 94.493 MiB, 32.75% gc time)
SHA-1:     0.569073 seconds (7 allocations: 960 bytes)
SHA2-256:   1.771765 seconds (6 allocations: 512 bytes)
SHA2-512:   1.289397 seconds (6 allocations: 656 bytes)
SHA3-256:   6.475997 seconds (728.55 k allocations: 88.935 MiB, 0.03% gc time)
SHA3-512:  13.375748 seconds (1.38 M allocations: 167.987 MiB, 0.02% gc time)

New performance on the same file:

$ julia perf.jl ~/.julia/v0.6/BinaryBuilder/deps/downloads/rootfs-x86_64-apple-darwin14.tar.gz
read:      0.203022 seconds (6 allocations: 94.493 MiB, 33.68% gc time)
SHA-1:     0.411811 seconds (7 allocations: 960 bytes)
SHA2-256:   1.460679 seconds (6 allocations: 512 bytes)
SHA2-512:   0.923359 seconds (6 allocations: 656 bytes)
SHA3-256:   1.568745 seconds (8 allocations: 992 bytes)
SHA3-512:   2.983240 seconds (8 allocations: 960 bytes)
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