[gambit-list] Speed improvement of lib/digest.scm

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Thu Feb 19 16:57:33 EST 2009


On 19-Feb-09, at 4:49 PM, Mikael More wrote:

> Cool!
>
> Useful!
>
> What is the approx speed on your machine btw?
>


On my 2GHz Mac Book Pro:

For MD5: 0.06 seconds per MB.
For SHA-1: 0.13 seconds per MB.

That's still about 3 times slower than the "md5" utility on my  
machine, but still not too bad for bit-bashing code entirely written  
in Scheme.

Marc




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