Hashing

One of the optimizations within Oxen is to use the xxHash algorithm to hash the file contents. This is a very fast hashing algorithm that is designed to be very memory efficient. It is also very fast to compute.

Compared to SHA or MD5 hashes which can hash data at < 1GB/s, xxHash can hash data at 30GB/s. This is a significant improvement for large files, and speeds up the process of adding and committing files to Oxen.

Inspect File Hashes

You can quickly inspect the xxHash of any file using the oxen info command.

oxen info -v file.txt