From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add xxhash. Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 16:48:26 +0200 Message-ID: <20150428144826.GB4503@debian> References: <87oama8skj.fsf@fsf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32852) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn6oM-000786-VZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:48:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn6oI-0004It-EM for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:48:34 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.13]:51705) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yn6oH-0004Ij-Um for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:48:30 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87oama8skj.fsf@fsf.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Thompson Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 05:53:32PM -0400, David Thompson wrote: > * gnu/packages/xxhash.scm: New file. I am usually not in favour of adding new files for small utilities. Could it go somewhere else? > + (synopsis "Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm") > + (description > + "xxHash is an extremely fast hash algorithm, running at RAM speed limits. > +It successfully passes the SMHasher test suite evaluating hash quality.") Maybe drop the marketing parts "extremely fast"? Otherwise, it looks good to me. Andreas