Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-duplicates

[Visuwesh]

[புதன் நவம்பர் 01, 2023] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:21:51 +0000
>> 
>> In the meantime, here is some quick and superficial feedback on the code:
>
> What I would like to ask is whether Harald tried to calculate SHA256
> using Emacs's own primitives, instead of relying on an external
> program, which may or may not be installed.

>From OP,

    The only external requirement is a checksum program like md5 or
    sha256sum that generates a hash value from the contents of a file used
    for comparison, because Emacs cannot do that in a performance-efficient
    way.

So I guess the answer is no.