Re: [Tails-dev] HTML prototype for new download page

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Autore: Uzair Farooq
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To: The Tails public development discussion list, anonym
CC: Muhammad Usman Subhani
Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] HTML prototype for new download page
Hey, we checked the forge library (the one they listed as the fastest in
their benchmark). To my surprise it improved the time darastically. It took
a little more than 1 minute on a core i3 machine with 4GB RAM. We have
pushed latest changes to the repo
https://github.com/usman-subhani/verification-extension

Regards,
Uzair

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 at 6:36 PM, sajolida <sajolida@???> wrote:

> sajolida:
> > anonym:
> >> Uzair Farooq:
> >>> Hey,
> >>>
> >>>> How long does it take to get a successful result of the verification
> >>>> extension on your machine?
> >>>
> >>> It took half an hour for us. We haven't processed such large SHA files
> >>> previously so I wasn't aware that it could take this long. Again, the
> >>> problem here is that the javascript implementation of the SHA algo is
> not
> >>> that efficient enough. We can try some other SHA libraries but I don't
> >>> expect they will make a considerable difference.
> >
> > I tried again on my machine. After 60 minutes it wasn't done yet.
> > Now with 90 minutes it's over. I have a ThinkPad X200 with a Core i5
> M520.
> >
> > So 30 minutes is if you are lucky and have a quite fast machine :)
> >
> >> So, can you please look at the top candidates among those
> implementations and report back your measurements?
> >
> > On top of speed, could you also measure RAM consumption?
>
> And since we're getting quite close to the deadline (November 16), I'd
> like you to also be more clear about when you think you'll be able to
> send us more work to review (so we can schedule time to review it).
>
> For example, do you think you'll be able to benchmark and report on the
> performance of these other JavaScript libraries before the end of the
> week? If not, when?
>

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