harvard-lts/fits — pull request #5 by mistydemeo (2013-09-02 21:30:58+00:00)
Title: Make FileInfo checksum generation optional

In some environments FITS is being called on files with known checksums, whose checksums are being checked in other parts of the workflow. Since MD5 hash generation is fairly computationally expensive, it's a significant amount of extra CPU time to spend on metadata that might not be used.

This commit makes MD5 checksum generation optional, controlled by the option.enable-checksum parameter in the fits.xml file.