use strict; use warnings; use Fcntl ':seek'; use bigint; use constant CHUNK => 65536; sub calc { my $file = shift or die "no filename given\n"; my $hash = -s $file; my $chunk = CHUNK; $hash < $chunk and die "$file is too small ($hash bytes < $chunk)\n"; open my $in, '<', $file or die "Cannot open $file for input: $!\n"; local $/ = \$chunk; for my $quad (unpack 'q*' , readline($in)) { $hash += $quad; $hash &= 2 ** 64 - 1; } seek($in, SEEK_END, -$chunk); for my $quad (unpack 'q*' , readline($in)) { $hash += $quad; $hash &= 2 ** 64 - 1; } close $in; return sprintf '%016x', $hash; } open my $out, '>', 'test.deleteme'; print $out ' ' x (65536*4); close $out; print calc('test.deleteme'), $/;