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On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 03:24:19PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> I have no doubt that Visual Studio Team Services, GitHub and Atlassian
> will eventually end up with FPGAs for hash computation. So that's that.

I actually doubt this from the GitHub side. Hash performance is not even
on our radar as a bottleneck. In most cases the problem is touching
uncompressed data _at all_, not computing the hash over it (so things
like reusing on-disk deltas are really important).

-Peff