sha256sum written in Python faster than GNU version in C?

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  • snippets

    • Here is my Python code on Gitlab, also copied below.

  • gnulib

    upstream mirror

    • This appears to be the coreutil code.

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  • OpenSSL

    TLS/SSL and crypto library

    • It turns out that OpenSSL has an optimized assembly implementation of SHA256 for armv8. It looks like coreutils only has a C implementation.

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