/crc32csum

Simple crc32c checksum utility

Primary LanguageCGNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

crc32csum

A simple utility for calculating crc32c from pipe or files using arm64 or x86 instructions.

Disclaimer

● x86 and software implementation code's author: Mark Adler(https://github.com/madler/brotli/blob/master/crc32c.c)

Compiling

● x86

gcc -msse4.2 -Wall -O3 -o crc32csum crc32csum.c

● arm64

gcc -march=armv8-a+crc+crypto -Wall -O3 -o crc32csum crc32csum.c

Benchmarks

1 GiB file from /dev/urandom was placed under tmpfs ramdisk before each runs.

x86: Intel Core i7-8550U

arm64: OnePlus 7 Pro (Snapdragon 855)

crc32 utility was from libarchive-zip-perl.

● x86

Utility Version Speed
crc32csum N/A 6059.17 MiB/s
crc32 1.60-1 1088.20 MiB/s
xxh128sum 0.7.3 6606.45 MiB/s
xxh64sum 0.7.3 5953.49 MiB/s
xxh32sum 0.7.3 4338.98 MiB/s
md5sum 8.28 655.15 MiB/s
sha1sum 8.28 586.82 MiB/s
sha256sum 8.28 227.86 MiB/s
sha512sum 8.28 372.09 MiB/s

● arm64

Utility Version Speed
crc32csum N/A 2892.66 MiB/s
crc32 1.60-1 605.56 MiB/s
xxh128sum 0.7.3 2645.99 MiB/s
xxh64sum 0.7.3 1812.39 MiB/s
xxh32sum 0.7.3 2221.26 MiB/s
md5sum 8.28 395.98 MiB/s
sha1sum 8.28 417.11 MiB/s
sha256sum 8.28 237.42 MiB/s
sha512sum 8.28 320.40 MiB/s

Enjoy!