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Old 03-21-2016, 10:35 PM   #567
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Yes, but it means someone has to create it. Both of the other examples are using pre-existing applications. Plus, they are run once per book. In this case, I suspect the cost of starting the executable to calculate the hash would outweigh the benefit. I might be wrong, but I'm not interested enough to do the work needed to do the tests.
@davidfor - I did write '...Unless one of the other PI developers is especially interested in doing the work...' - I didn't think any of them would be. But we ought not discourage stanmarsh from experimenting - new PI developers may not be hens teeth but nor do they grow on trees

If you drill into the link provided you get to code, at a glance it appears to written in C++, can a PI call a dll, can a...

<joke>Maybe one could run an always enabled service that encaps the algo</joke>

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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
In which case, is hash implementation speed really a significant bottleneck?
Only on very, very, very large libraries

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