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Flipping Arrays versus Intersecting Arrays

Your results should not vary much from this benchmark, since it uses a million elements per array:

+--------------------------------------------------+
|   array_intersect took 3.6954879760742E-5 
|
|   array_flip took 0.039736986160278 
+--------------------------------------------------+

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Google Fiber Was Doomed From the Start

Google Fiber was never going to be the answer.

Google Online Security Blog - Announcing the first SHA1 collision

Uh oh!

Here's an excerpt:

Here are some numbers that give a sense of how large scale this computation was:

• Nine quintillion (9,223,372,036,854,775,808) SHA1 computations in total
• 6,500 years of CPU computation to complete the attack first phase
• 110 years of GPU computation to complete the second phase

Announcing the first SHA1 collision

Google Online Security Blog:

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