20 Feb
2005
20 Feb
'05
9:06 p.m.
Brent Frère wrote:
Could you please urgently add this comment, as
otherwise this piece of
code could be stolen by some proprietary software company ?
OK, I've done it, as well as added a few optimisations - please have a
look if it's OK like that. But isn't refering to the GPL enough, as I
did it initially?
When I run the program over my disk which has a large number of
duplicates (especially on the windows partition), the head is spinning
quite heavily. I've increased the size of blocks it reads to keep the
movements down, but it's still impressive. Maybe calculating an MD5
would indeed speed up, i.e. have more reads but less head movement? That
is provided that files are more or less sequentially on a disk. Maybe
I'll make it an option, just to compare.
-pu