[bitbake-devel] [PATCH 1/2] utils/md5_file: don't iterate line-by-line

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 2018-08-13 20:02, Ross Burton wrote:
> Opening a file in binary mode and iterating it seems like the simple solution
> but will still break on newlines, which for binary files isn't really useful as
> the size of the chunks could be huge or tiny.

And what exactly was wrong with

http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2018-July/009407.html
http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/bitbake-devel/2018-July/009409.html

? I have lots of patches and ideas for performance improvements in
bitbake, pseudo and other components, but I'm not getting any response
at all, which is rather frustrating.

Rasmus