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1 root 1.1 =head1 NAME
2    
3 root 1.6 String::CRC32C - Castagnoli CRC
4 root 1.1
5     =head1 SYNOPSIS
6    
7     use String::CRC32C; # does not export anything by default
8     use String::CRC32C 'crc32c';
9    
10     $crc = crc32 "some string";
11     $crc = crc32 "some string", $initvalue;
12    
13     =head1 DESCRIPTION
14    
15     This module calculates the Castagnoli CRC32 variant (polynomial 0x11EDC6F41).
16    
17 root 1.3 It is used by iSCSI, SCTP, BTRFS, ext4, leveldb, x86 CPUs and others.
18 root 1.1
19 root 1.2 This module uses an optimized implementation for SSE 4.2 targets (GCC
20     and compatible supported, SSE 4.2 must be enabled in your Perl) and the
21 root 1.1 SlicingBy8 algorithm for anything else.
22    
23     =cut
24    
25     package String::CRC32C;
26    
27 root 1.3 our $IMPL;
28    
29 root 1.1 BEGIN {
30 root 1.7 $VERSION = '1.0';
31 root 1.1 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
32     @EXPORT_OK = qw(crc32c);
33    
34     require XSLoader;
35     XSLoader::load String::CRC32C, $VERSION;
36     }
37    
38     use Exporter qw(import);
39    
40     =over
41    
42     =item $crc32c = crc32c $string[, $initvalue]
43    
44     Calculates the CRC32C value of the given C<$string> and returns it as a 32
45     bit unsigned integer.
46    
47     To get the common hex form, use one of:
48    
49     sprintf "%08x", crc32c $string
50     unpack "H*", pack "L>", crc32c $string
51    
52     A seed/initial crc value can be given as second argument. Note that both
53     the initial value and the result value are inverted (pre-inversion and
54     post-inversion), e.g. a common init value of C<-1> from other descriptions
55     needs to be given as C<0> (or C<~-1>).
56    
57     This allows easy chaining, e.g.
58    
59 root 1.5 (crc32c "abcdefghi") eq (crc32 "ghi", crc32 "def", crc32 "abc")
60 root 1.1
61 root 1.4 =item $String::CRC32C::IMPL
62 root 1.3
63 root 1.4 Contains a string indicating the implementation that will be used. Currently either C<SlicingBy8>
64 root 1.3 for the portable implementation or C<IntelCSSE42> for the SSE 4.2 optimized intel version.
65    
66 root 1.1 =back
67    
68 root 1.7 =head1 PERLMULTICORE SUPPORT
69    
70 root 1.9 This module supports the perl multicore specification
71 root 1.7 (L<http://perlmulticore.schmorp.de/>): the C<crc32c> function will
72 root 1.9 relinquish the current thread for string lengths larger than 64k (the
73 root 1.8 break-even point on my machine is around 128k), so multiprocessing makes
74     only sense for very long blocks.
75 root 1.7
76 root 1.1 =head1 AUTHOR
77    
78     Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de>
79     http://home.schmorp.de/
80    
81     CRC32C code by various sources, ported from
82     https://github.com/htot/crc32c, see sources for details.
83    
84     =cut
85    
86     1
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