First of all thank you very much for the critique,it is very well welcomed from my part.
I will use it to improve the program.
1)why do you think the current method of opening the files does not yield correct results ?
(I compared my results of SHA1s against sha1sum unix utilitary and they came out ok,that's
why I'm asking).
2)you are right,I will do this
3)ok I understand,where could I read more about this ?
4)As I read the documentation and thinking that a number in base 10 should always present more
digits than its representation in base 16 I dont understand how it could be shorter in base 10.
I don't get why they say I will get a shorter string in a lower base.


Also they talk about using a single sha1 object and reusing it because of the reset() method that
can clear out the old data from it.
Do you think this will speed up things ?

In reply to Re^2: scalable duplicate file remover by spx2
in thread scalable duplicate file remover by spx2

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