Nice patch! My informal tests show that md5 is about two times faster than md5sum on my g4 Dual-450.

Carsten

Only 4 pairs of tests with a 700 Megabyte file.
Times are underlined below, about 35s for md5 versus 1min 18s for md5sum.


[localhost:~] carsten% time md5 r-divx.avi ; time md5sum r-divx.avi
MD5 (r-divx.avi) = 107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708
17.660u 11.050s 0:36.34 79.0% 0+0k 2+0io 0pf+0w
----
107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708 r-divx.avi
71.740u 5.040s 1:22.43 93.1% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----

[localhost:~] carsten% time md5 r-divx.avi ; time md5sum r-divx.avi
MD5 (r-divx.avi) = 107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708
17.920u 10.390s 0:34.99 80.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----
107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708 r-divx.avi
71.720u 4.650s 1:18.75 96.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----

[localhost:~] carsten% time md5 r-divx.avi ; time md5sum r-divx.avi
MD5 (r-divx.avi) = 107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708
17.400u 10.970s 0:34.95 81.1% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----
107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708 r-divx.avi
71.840u 4.500s 1:18.34 97.4% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----

[localhost:~] carsten% time md5 r-divx.avi ; time md5sum r-divx.avi
MD5 (r-divx.avi) = 107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708
17.530u 11.100s 0:37.20 76.9% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----
107d00f125fae4f079aacaba989df708 r-divx.avi
72.270u 4.230s 1:19.64 96.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
----
[localhost:~] carsten%

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 01:07 pm, Ben Hines wrote:

Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv3975

Modified Files:
	ChangeLog Services.pm
Log Message:
use /bin/md5 for md5 if present


Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.255
retrieving revision 1.256
diff -u -r1.255 -r1.256
--- ChangeLog	16 Feb 2003 01:04:32 -0000	1.255
+++ ChangeLog	16 Feb 2003 18:07:01 -0000	1.256
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-02-16  Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
+
+	* Services.pm: Use /bin/md5 for md5sums if present (Patch #675893).
+	
 2003-02-16  Max Horn  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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