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Checksum plugin is very slow, I did some measurements, see attached screenshots. I've compared Salamander to GNU md5sum.exe (which is also not highly optimized). It should be clear from the graph that while Salamander is CPU limeted (bad calculating performance), GNU md5sum is I/O limited (desired). Measurements done on my home PC: AMD A64 3500+ (venice), relatively fast HDD (~120MB/sec I/O read performance).

So if i need a fast checksum for big files, i still need to use a command line tool.