Dear Monks

I have a new problem, which is challenging of course, but when implementing the solution it would be nice to know that I've chosen the correct one!
The tool I'm writing has to tell, out of many objects (all instances from the same package), which objects are duplicates. In a loop I can compare the data from 2 objects at the time and determine which objects I have to remove. However this will be too slow, those objects contain a lot of ASCII data! (performance is very important).

The best solution (I think) would be to create a fingerprint once per object which is used in the comparison!
But what is the fastest way to make fingerprints, MD5 ?

Thnx
LuCa

In reply to How to make a fingerprint from an Object by jeanluca

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