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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:04:06 +0200
From: Frank Dittrich <frank_dittrich@...mail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: relbench and changed format names (was: 1.7.9-jumbo-6)

On 06/21/2012 04:48 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:33:25AM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
>> Should I also try relbench, and compare the jumbo-5 results with current
>> magnum-jumbo?
> 
> You may, but this will fail to compare many of the formats because of
> the renames.

Yes, I expected such problems, but I think we need to know the impact of
the renames.

>  Maybe you can correct that by preparing a script that
> would do similar renames in output of jumbo-5.

For now, I just changed relbench in a way that the jumbo-5 dynamic
formats are recognized as the same as those in current git.
This alone increased the number of matching formats by 36.
See attached patch.

> Maybe we can even
> include that script along with jumbo-6.  In fact, maybe that script
> shouldn't be specific to this one occasion, but should be a script to
> turn all historical format names to what they're currently called in
> whatever revision of jumbo the script is included with.

This gets tricky because now some formats that used different format
names in jumbo-5 now use the same format name.

Frank

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