lol, reading this as I'm trying to get the Nvidia driver working on a 2010 mac mini ... if it was an Intel graphics model it would be fine, but non-standard hardware still breaks things, even on relatively common machines
Yes, a site with 'Nerd' in the title on Neal Stephenson really needs to mention 'In the beginning was the command line' an analogy-fest on the state of personal computing in the late ninties
https://web.archive.org/web/20180218045352/http://www.crypto...
You are also using a language function to read the file. In the 'official' github implementations they have to accept the data line by line from stdin - stdin likely being slower than reading a file directly.