MD5deep benchmarking betty

Now that I'm done testing and benchmarking on my own x86_64 fedora system, I need to test md5deep on an AARCH64 system. I transferred the files I used in the x86_64 benchmark to the betty server using scp and sftp. Once I got the test files transferred I transferred the tar.gz file of md5deep so I could try to install it on betty. Here's where I ran into some issues...

The normal way to install the md5deep is to unpack it and run the following commands:

sh bootstrap.sh
sudo ./configure
make
make install 

Sadly it stopped at the configure step. It could not recognize which build to use since it did not know aarch64. Luckily in the error it gave me a website to download the most recent configure files which did contain aarch64! (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/) So after some more use of sftp the configure step finally worked and I could run the make install command.

On to the benchmarking. Just like benchmarking on the x86_64 I ran the md5deep program 100 times with 3 different file sizes. The results are as following:

10.5 mb file
real: 0m0.037s
user: 0m0.028s
sys: 0m0.001s

105 mb file
real: 0m0.345s
user: 0m0.323s
sys: 0m0.027s

1.5 gb file
real: 0m4.792s
user: 0m4.551s
sys: 0m0.400s

If you only have one file md5deep can hash it pretty quickly. Even if you hash entire directory structures you wouldn't have to wait too long.