On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 11:21:42 PM Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> (1) I like the choice of Fletcher-16. It should be very good at
>> detecting problems while being a lot less expensive that an official
>> CRC calculation.
> I wonder if CRC32c wouldn't be a good alternative given more and more cpus
> (its in SSE 4.2) support calculating it in silicon.
We're trying to get something that fits in 16bits for this release.
I'm guessing CRC32c doesn't?
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