Bug#555944: ITP: fast-md5 -- fast implementation of the MD5 algorithm written in Java

[Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@ubuntu.com>]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> * Onkar Shinde:
>
>>   * Java's built-in MD5 support is a bottleneck for your program's performance
>>     and you want something faster.
>
> The benchmarks are from Java 1.4.  This was quite a while ago.  Is the
> speed difference still there?

This is a valid question. I have asked upstream maintainer about
benchmarks. He said that it will be at least a week before he can
update them.

The main reason I packaged this is because I am working on packaging
of cruisecontrol [1] and this is one of the essential build-deps.

[1] http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/


Onkar