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Re:Reed-Solomon coder computing one million ECC blocks at 1 ... by gbrown_ on Monday May 08, 2017 @11:29AM (#14292383)
Firstly this looks cool and I'll be looking at it closer when I get home from work.

> Note that all speeds mentioned here are measured on i7-4770, employing all features available in a particular program - including multi-threading, SIMD and x64 support.

I hope this doesn't wind up infringing on the Streamscale patent[1] as some other works have in this field. Again I need to give this a proper read.

[1] https://www.google.com/patents/US8683296

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Re:Reed-Solomon coder computing one million ECC blocks at 1 ... by Bulat-Ziganshin on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:47AM (#14300454)
the math behind it is completely different. it doesn't even use GF(2^n) fields at all :)

as mentioned in RS.md, the encoding sheme is known since 2003 and even became a part of RFC

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