google / google/honggfuzz

perf issues with entropy calculation

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when time/exec is small (to the order of 10s of microseconds), targets end up underutilizing their CPU cores because honggfuzz is spending 85% of its time calculating entropy, we should skip-sample bytes and/or cache the entropies for corpus items

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