bcftbx/Md5sum: reimplement 'md5sum' function to reduce memory footprint #211
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Reimplements the
md5sum
function to reduce the memory footprint when operating on large files, based on the Stack Overflow answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/1131255/579925 (responding to the question "Get the MD5 hash of big files in Python"). The original implementation would run out of memory for large files.