parhash

About

Parhash presents tools for making it easy to generate multiple hash sums over the same data. It does this in parallel, spreading the computation work over all available CPUs.

Parhash has a speed advantage over serial operations when working with multiple hash algorithms over large data. Run the benchmark to see the difference over serial operation on your machine:

    go test -bench .

On my machine, i7 3.5Ghz dual core I get a speed up of about 240%

  BenchmarkSerial-4            500           3577258 ns/op
  BenchmarkParallel-4         1000           1458583 ns/op

For smaller data sets parhash won't see significant performance advantages due to the overhead of using channels and goroutines distribute the work.

Installation

go get github.com/mostlygeek/parhash

Usage Example

p := parhash.New()

// Add returns the same hash to make creation and assignment more concise
hash1 := p.Add(md5.New())
hash2 := p.Add(sha1.New())

// Parhash is an io.Writer
fmt.Fprintf(p, "Hello World")
fmt.Printf("MD5 : %s\n", hex.EncodeToString(hash1.Sum(nil)))
fmt.Printf("SHA1: %s", hex.EncodeToString(hash2.Sum(nil)))

// Output:
// MD5 : b10a8db164e0754105b7a99be72e3fe5
// SHA1: 0a4d55a8d778e5022fab701977c5d840bbc486d0

CLI

A command line tool is included as an example. It includes many of the hash algorithms available from go's standard library. Try it out, it's fun!

To install it do this:

cd cmd
go build -o $GOPATH/bin/parhasher parhasher.go

Usage:

• parhasher -h - prints out help
• parhasher -a <file> - computes sums using all available hash algorithms for
• parhasher -sha1 -md5 <file> - computes a sha1 and md5 sum for

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Benson Wong

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