Talk:Fletcher's checksum

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Surely an article about Fletcher's checksum should demonstrate the algorithm and not 3 tricks on how to get it fast. It makes it harder to follow the algorithm's purpose and the optimizations are language specific.

Even if the C syntax is used, it should be in the simplest way to illustrate what the algorithm is trying to achieve.

The C code presented operates on a number of 16-bit words, rather than a (possibly odd) number of bytes; this should be noted in the example. The final value is dependent on the endianness of the architecture, this should also be noted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.37.158.157 (talk) 16:16, 20 February 2008 (UTC)