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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by richbradshaw on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:31AM (#23582629)
If you store them as strings instead of binary (which I'm guessing 99% of hashes are), they take up more DB space currently, and passing them round is slower, e.g. as etags etc.
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by speedgoose on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:39AM (#23582658)
I would guess that once compressed, binary represented as hex strings don't take much more space than base64 strings. Probably still a bit more than the compressed binary though.
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by dependenttypes on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:57AM (#23582965)
You won't gain anything by compressing (binary) hashes.
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by speedgoose on Saturday June 20, 2020 @07:07AM (#23583246)
Oh yes indeed.
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Re:Updating the Git protocol for SHA-256 by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:42AM (#23582665)
This is about printing, not storage.
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