Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Please document performance #5

Open
dimaqq opened this issue Feb 22, 2017 · 1 comment
Open

Please document performance #5

dimaqq opened this issue Feb 22, 2017 · 1 comment

Comments

@dimaqq
Copy link

dimaqq commented Feb 22, 2017

At the first glance, pure-Python seems slow, is the underlying crypto implemented in pure Python, or does it use something from stdlib, etc...

So, for someone who doesn't want to dig too deep, README.md could have a simple performance comparison, e.g. against pypi:scrypt with same settings.

@ricmoo
Copy link
Owner

ricmoo commented Sep 13, 2017

The algorithm is in Pure-Python. It will be excruciatingly slow.

In PyPy it is snappy though.

The main values in a Pure-Python implementation

  • Ease of understanding for other learning about how scrypt works
  • Environments which do not allow modules

I have not had time to document performance, but it will not be good. :)

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

2 participants